Pillow `PcfFontFile._load_bitmaps()`: `Image.frombytes()` called without `_decompression_bomb_check()` — bomb protection bypass via PCF font loading

Description PIL/PcfFontFile.py loadbitmaps line 227 reads glyph dimensions from the PCF METRICS section and passes them directly to Image.frombytes without calling Image.decompressionbombcheck. Dimensions originate from unsigned 16-bit values: xsize = right - left max: 65535 − 0 = 65535 ysize =...

CVE-2015-1804

The bdfReadCharacters function in bitmap/bdfread.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.9 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 does not properly perform type conversion for metrics values, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds memory access and possibly execute arbitrary co...