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PYSEC-2015-16

Quick fix

PYSEC-2015-16 — pillow: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'pillow>=2.7.0'

Details

Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/pillow

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.7.0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'pillow>=2.7.0'

References

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060[WEB]
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/[ARTICLE]
http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.html[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148442.html[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00056.html[WEB]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77758[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5rf-vgqx-wjv2[ADVISORY]