# CVE-2021-28677: An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0.

- Also known as: GHSA-Q5HQ-FP76-QMRC, BIT-PILLOW-2021-28677, PYSEC-2021-93
- 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 EPS data, the readline implementation used in EPSImageFile has to deal with any combination of \r and \n as line endings. It used an accidentally quadratic method of accumulating lines while looking for a line ending. A malicious EPS file could use this to perform a DoS of Pillow in the open phase, before an image was accepted for opening.

## 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-2021-28677-fix-eps-dos-on-open
- 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

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