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pillow — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59204

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 8.2.0 through 12.2.0, src/libImaging/Jpeg2KDecode.c accumulates total_component_width across every tile in a JPEG2000 image instead of recomputing it per tile, allowing a crafted tiled JPEG2000 file to force substantially higher transient memory usage and trigger out-of-memory failures during decoding. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.

Products
pillow
Affected versions
10.0.0-1, 10.1.0-1, 10.2.0-1, 10.3.0-1, 10.3.0-2, 10.4.0-1, 10.4.0-1.1, 11.1.0-1, 11.1.0-2, 11.1.0-3, 11.1.0-4, 11.1.0-5, 11.1.0-5+deb13u1, 11.1.0-5+deb13u2, 11.1.0-5+deb13u3, 11.1.0-5+deb13u4, 11.2.1-1, 11.3.0-1, 12.0.0-1, 12.1.0-1, 12.1.1-1, 12.1.1-2, 12.2.0-1, 12.3.0-1, 13.0.0-1, 9.4.0-1.1, 9.4.0-1.1+deb12u1, 9.5.0-1
Fixed versions
12.3.0-1
CVEs
CVE-2026-59204
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 09:56 UTC · Revision 2

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59204

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Jul 2026, 16:17 UTC

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 8.2.0 through 12.2.0, src/libImaging/Jpeg2KDecode.c accumulates total_component_width across every tile in a JPEG2000 image instead of recomputing it per tile, allowing a crafted tiled JPEG2000 file to force substantially higher transient memory usage and trigger out-of-memory failures during decoding. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59204

pillow

Fixed versions: Not specified

pillow

Fixed versions: Not specified

pillow

Fixed versions: 12.3.0-1

Complete source record
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