GHSA-xg8h-j46f-w952

Pillow vulnerability can cause write buffer overflow on BCn encoding

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2025-48379
Aliases
BIT-pillow-2025-48379, PYSEC-2025-61
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Description

There is a heap buffer overflow when writing a sufficiently large (>64k encoded with default settings) image in the DDS format due to writing into a buffer without checking for available space. This only affects users who save untrusted data as a compressed DDS image. * Unclear how large the potential write could be. It is likely limited by process segfault, so it's not necessarily deterministic. It may be practically unbounded. * Unclear if there's a restriction on the bytes that could be emitted. It's likely that the only restriction is that the bytes would be emitted in chunks of 8 or 16. This was introduced in Pillow 11.2.0 when the feature was added.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · pillowintroduced 11.2.0, fixed 11.3.0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database