CVE-2019-19911 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Pillow

What is CVE-2019-19911?

CVE-2019-19911 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

There is a DoS vulnerability in Pillow before 6.2.2 caused by FpxImagePlugin.py calling the range function on an unvalidated 32-bit integer if the number of bands is large. On Windows running 32-bit Python, this results in an OverflowError or MemoryError due to the 2 GB limit. However, on Linux running 64-bit Python this results in the process being terminated by the OOM killer.

Weakness: CWE-190

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19911?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including pillow. It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Python Pillow.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19911?

Upgrade pillow to 6.2.2 or later.

Is CVE-2019-19911 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19911 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2019-19911, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19911, GHSA-5gm3-px64-rw72, PYSEC-2020-172, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19911.