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

Type: advisorySources: Official CVE List

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.

Products
Pillow
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2026-96644
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 23:11 UTC · Revision 2

Source evidence

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

core-cve · Original source

Published 21 Oct 2026, 20:54 UTC

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.

cve:CVE-2026-96644

Pillow

Fixed versions: Not specified

Complete source record
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