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CVE-2021-25291 (GCVE-0-2021-25291)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-19 03:30 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:56
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. In TiffDecode.c, there is an out-of-bounds read in TiffreadRGBATile via invalid tile boundaries.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releaseno… x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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