High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. In TiffDecode.c, there is an out-of-bounds read in TiffreadRGBATile via invalid tile boundaries.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-25291
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. In TiffDecode.c, there is an out-of-bounds read in TiffreadRGBATile via invalid tile boundaries.
osv:CVE-2021-25291
Complete source record
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