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Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.3.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can return uninitialized memory as pixels when libtiff performs a short decode of JPEG-compressed or Group 4 fax TIFF data. The _decodeStrip and _decodeTile buffers can be larger than the bytes written by libtiff, but Pillow converts the expected rows without clearing the unwritten tail. The tile path is affected from 5.3.0 and the strip path from 6.0.0. An attacker can supply a crafted TIFF to an application that loads and returns or re-encodes its pixels. This can disclose stale heap contents without memory corruption or a process crash. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
python-pillow Pillow >= 5.3.0, < 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
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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 15 SP7 python-Pillow 7.2.0-150300.3.33.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5038-1
SLES 15 SP6 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
SLES 15 SP5 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
SLES 15 SP4 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
SLES 3 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 python-Pillow 11.3.0-160000.9.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24656-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
SLES 16.0 python-Pillow 11.3.0-160000.9.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24656-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 python-Pillow 9.5.0-150400.5.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:5194-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 python-Pillow 11.3.0-160000.9.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:22246-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 python3-pillow +2 9.4.0-2.amzn2023.0.12 ALAS2023-2026-3411

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling gftools 0.10.4-r1 —
Wolfi rolling kserve-storage-controller 0.21.0-r9 —
Wolfi rolling kubeflow-pipelines-visualization-server 2.17.2-r7 —
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 —
Wolfi rolling superset-6.0 6.0.0-r21 —
Wolfi rolling superset-6.1 6.1.0-r16 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pillow >= 5.3.0, < 13.0.0 13.0.0 GHSA-q45j-58j2-45rg

Advisories 6

References