USN-8399-1: Pillow vulnerabilities

USN-8399-1: Pillow vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Mon, 06/08/2026 - 17:28
It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled large glyph advance values in fonts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42308) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled nested coordinate lists in certain APIs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42309) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42310) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed PSD files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42311)

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