# CVE-2021-28676: An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0.

- Also known as: GHSA-7R7M-5H27-29HP, BIT-PILLOW-2021-28676, PYSEC-2021-92
- 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): fixed in 8.2.0

## Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For FLI data, FliDecode did not properly check that the block advance was non-zero, potentially leading to an infinite loop on load.

## 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-2021-28676-fix-fli-dos
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/5377
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MQHA5HAIBOYI3R6HDWCLAGFTIQP767FL/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00018.html
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/bb6c11fb889e6c11b0ee122b828132ee763b5856

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