🛡️ CVE-2021-25289 — pillow
Description
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. TiffDecode has a heap-based buffer overflow when decoding crafted YCbCr files because of certain interpretation conflicts with LibTIFF in RGBA mode. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-35654.
Affected software
CVE-2021-25289 is recorded against 1 package.
- pillow
Timeline and source
Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 3 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
pillow.readthedocs.io (Web)
security.gentoo.org (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)
Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| pillow | — | — |
References
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