usn-6618-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2024-01-30 15:17
Modified
2026-04-27 14:11
Summary
pillow vulnerabilities
Details

It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain long text arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-44271)

Duarte Santos discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled the environment parameter to PIL.ImageMath.eval. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-50447)

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  "id": "USN-6618-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-27T14:11:32Z",
  "published": "2024-01-30T15:17:54Z",
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}



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