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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-27922

Pillow before 8.1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICNS container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:50 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-27922

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Mar 2021, 09:15 UTC

Pillow before 8.1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICNS container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.

osv:CVE-2021-27922
Complete source record
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