Important: python-pillow security update

Synopsis

Important: python-pillow security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for python-pillow is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The python-pillow packages contain a Python image processing library that provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image-processing capabilities.

Security Fix(es):

• python-pillow: out-of-bounds write in expandrow in libImaging/SgiRleDecode.c (CVE-2020-5311)
  
• python-pillow: improperly restricted operations on memory buffer in libImaging/PcxDecode.c (CVE-2020-5312)
  
• python-pillow: reading specially crafted image files leads to allocation of large amounts of memory and denial of service (CVE-2019-16865)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1774066 - CVE-2019-16865 python-pillow: reading specially crafted image files leads to allocation of large amounts of memory and denial of service
• BZ - 1789533 - CVE-2020-5312 python-pillow: improperly restricted operations on memory buffer in libImaging/PcxDecode.c
• BZ - 1789535 - CVE-2020-5311 python-pillow: out-of-bounds write in expandrow in libImaging/SgiRleDecode.c

CVEs

• CVE-2019-16865
• CVE-2020-5311
• CVE-2020-5312

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important