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CVE-2026-96778GHSA-G7CR-3P24-7WF7

Pillow: Heap buffer overflow writing JPEG comment after ICC profile fills buffer

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 13.0.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.4.0 until 13.0.0, ImagingJpegEncode() in src/libImaging/JpegEncode.c can call jpeg_write_marker() for a JPEG COM comment when an ICC profile has exactly filled the 65536-byte encoder buffer. libjpeg writes one byte before checking the exhausted free_in_buffer counter, which then wraps and permits the attacker-controlled comment and subsequent compressed image data to overwrite adjacent heap memory. Re-saving an untrusted image as JPEG while preserving its ICC profile and forwarded comment can crash the process and may enable code execution in suitable runtime and heap layouts. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • python-pillow Pillow

    From 9.4.0 · fixed in 13.0.0

  • pillowPyPI

    From 9.4.0 · fixed in 13.0.0

References 4

GitHub · python-pillow/Pillow