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Pillow: Heap over-read in WMF/EMF rendering via 16-bit dimension truncation (Windows builds)

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Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0 on Windows, src/PIL/WmfImagePlugin.py passes unchecked 32-bit WMF or EMF dimensions to the native drawwmf handler in src/display.c. The handler sizes a DIB allocation from 16-bit-truncated bcWidth and bcHeight fields but copies pixel data using the original full dimensions. A crafted wide, short metafile can pass the pixel-count decompression-bomb check and make the Windows-only renderer read beyond the heap buffer, potentially disclosing memory or crashing the process. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

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CVE-2026-96644

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-96644

Pillow

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[
  {
    "vendor": "python-pillow",
    "product": "Pillow",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 13.0.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]
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CVE-2026-96644

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