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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-112396 BIT-pillow-2026-112396EUVD-2026-104632GHSA-4rr5-89j8-mwwmPYSEC-2026-4328

Pillow: Heap use-after-free when encoding TIFF to an in-memory buffer

Published Oct 19, 2026 · Updated Oct 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 11.3.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow has a heap use-after-free when libtiff rejects a tag while encoding TIFF data to an in-memory buffer. When an application saves attacker-influenced TIFF tags to BytesIO, libtiff can reject a tag during encoding in ImagingLibTiffEncode; the error path then frees the output buffer without closing or clearing the TIFF handle, and later cleanup flushes through the write callback into freed memory, which can crash the process and may enable code execution. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
python-pillow Pillow >= 11.3.0, < 13.0.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 pillow No fix yet —
Debian 13 pillow No fix yet —
Debian 12 pillow No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 pillow 12.3.0-1ubuntu2 USN-9064-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pillow 12.1.1-2ubuntu1.5 USN-9064-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pillow 10.2.0-1ubuntu1.5 USN-9064-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pillow 9.0.1-1ubuntu0.7 USN-9064-1
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS pillow 7.0.0-4ubuntu0.9+esm2 USN-9064-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS pillow-python2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS pillow 5.1.0-1ubuntu0.8+esm3 USN-9064-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS pillow 3.1.2-0ubuntu1.6+esm4 USN-9064-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS pillow 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm6 USN-9064-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 python-Pillow 11.3.0-160000.9.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24656-1
SLES 16.0 python-Pillow 11.3.0-160000.9.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24656-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Pillow 13.0.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12230-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 python-Pillow 11.3.0-160000.9.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:22246-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling open-webui 0.12.3-r6 —
Wolfi rolling py3.10-pillow No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling py3.11-pillow +2 13.0.0-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pillow >= 11.3.0, < 13.0.0 13.0.0 GHSA-4rr5-89j8-mwwm

Advisories 4

References