Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. There is an out-of-bounds read in J2kDecode, in j2ku_graya_la.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-25287
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. There is an out-of-bounds read in J2kDecode, in j2ku_graya_la.
osv:CVE-2021-25287
Complete source record
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