CVE-2014-9601

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21
Opensuse: 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2
python-pillow Pillow: through 2.6.2

References

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

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