CVE-2014-9601

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Published 2015-01-16 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9601

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse13.2affected
fedora fedora21affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.6.1-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2.6.1-2
debian debianforkyfixed2.6.1-2
debian debiansidfixed2.6.1-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2.6.1-2

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIpillow<2.7.02.7.0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
pythonpillow{"endIncluding":"2.6.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.