# CVE-2021-25288: An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0.

- Also known as: GHSA-RWV7-3V45-HG29, BIT-PILLOW-2021-25288, PYSEC-2021-138
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.2.0
- Published: 2021-06-02 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- pillow (PyPI): from 2.4.0, fixed in 8.2.0
- pillow (PyPI): fixed in 8.2.0

## Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. There is an out-of-bounds read in J2kDecode, in j2ku_gray_i.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, pillow, upgrade to a fixed version (8.2.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.2.0.html#cve-2021-25287-cve-2021-25288-fix-oob-read-in-jpeg2kdecode
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/5377#issuecomment-833821470
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MQHA5HAIBOYI3R6HDWCLAGFTIQP767FL/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33

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