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gentooGentoo FoundationGLSA-201612-52
HistoryDec 31, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

Pillow: Multiple vulnerabilities

2016-12-3100:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
36

0.073 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.0%

Background

The friendly PIL fork.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pillow. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application, or obtain sensitive information.

A remote attackers could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Pillow users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/pillow-3.4.2"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyalldev-python/pillow< 3.4.2UNKNOWN