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ALPINE-CVE-2021-28678

ALPINE-CVE-2021-28678 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.14py3-pillow8.1.2-r1, 7.1.1-r0, 7.1.2-r0
Alpine:v3.15py3-pillow7.1.1-r0, 7.2.0-r0, 8.1.0-r0

Timeline

  • Jun 2, 2021 CVE Published
  • Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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