CVE-2020-10177 Out-of-bounds reads in Pillow

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Out-of-bounds reads in Pillow's FliDecode.c allow attackers to cause denial of service or disclose sensitive memory contents.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2020-10177?

CVE-2020-10177 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Pillow before 7.1.0 has multiple out-of-bounds reads in libImaging/FliDecode.c.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-10177?

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

PackageAffectedFixed in
pillow BitnamiAll versions7.1.0
pillow PyPIAll versions7.1.0
pillow PyPIAll versions7.1.0
pillow PyPIAll versions7.1.0

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

How do I fix CVE-2020-10177?

Upgrade pillow to 7.1.0 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2020-10177 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10177 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as BIT-pillow-2020-10177, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10177, DLA-2317-1, GHSA-cqhg-xjhh-p8hf, PYSEC-2020-76, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10177.

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