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Medium ALAS2-2025-2784 1 CVE

Moderate: python-pillow security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated Mar 7, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-0740: Buffer overflow in the ImagingLibTiffDecode function in libImaging/TiffDecode.c in Pillow before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite memory via a crafted TIFF file.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.15
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-debuginfo 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.15
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-devel 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.15
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-doc 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.15
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-sane 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.15
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-tk 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.15

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2016-0740

    Pillow Buffer overflow in ImagingLibTiffDecode

    Buffer overflow in the ImagingLibTiffDecode function in libImaging/TiffDecode.c in Pillow before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite memory via a crafted TIFF file.

    pillow pillow pillow Debian Ubuntu PyPI

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2016-0740.html