CVE-2019-19911

Description

There is a DoS vulnerability in Pillow before 6.2.2 caused by FpxImagePlugin.py calling the range function on an unvalidated 32-bit integer if the number of bands is large. On Windows running 32-bit Python, this results in an OverflowError or MemoryError due to the 2 GB limit. However, on Linux running 64-bit Python this results in the process being terminated by the OOM killer.

How to fix CVE-2019-19911

To remediate CVE-2019-19911, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 6.2.2-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 7.0.0-1 or later
• —upgrade to 2.6.1-2+deb8u4 or later
• —upgrade to 4.0.0-4+deb9u1 or later
• —upgrade to 6.2.2 or later
• —upgrade to 6.2.2 or later

Is CVE-2019-19911 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (6)

• from 0, < 6.2.2-r0
• from 0, < 7.0.0-1
• from 0, < 2.6.1-2+deb8u4
• from 0, < 4.0.0-4+deb9u1
• from 0, < 6.2.2
• from 0, < 6.2.2

CVSS scores

References (13)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-5gm3-px64-rw72
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19911
• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-19911
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-19911