ubuntu-cve-2014-9601
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2015-01-16 00:00
Modified
2025-09-08 16:43
Summary
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.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "python-imaging",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-imaging-compat",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-imaging-sane",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-imaging-tk",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-pil",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-pil.imagetk",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-sane",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python3-imaging",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python3-imaging-sane",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python3-imaging-tk",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python3-pil",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python3-pil.imagetk",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python3-sane",
            "binary_version": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "pillow",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/pillow@2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.2.1-1ubuntu2",
        "2.2.1-2ubuntu1",
        "2.2.1-3ubuntu2",
        "2.2.1-3ubuntu3",
        "2.2.1-3ubuntu4",
        "2.2.1-3ubuntu6",
        "2.3.0-1ubuntu1",
        "2.3.0-1ubuntu2",
        "2.3.0-1ubuntu3",
        "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2",
        "2.3.0-1ubuntu3.3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9601",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:43:16Z",
  "published": "2015-01-16T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9601"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3090-2"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3090-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3230-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3229-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9601"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-3090-2",
    "USN-3090-1",
    "USN-3230-1",
    "USN-3229-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2014-9601"
  ]
}



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