Pillow: Invalid free in FreeType glyph rendering when a stroker is active
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 10.0.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can free an invalid glyph pointer during FreeType rendering with an active stroker. If FT_Load_Glyph fails, cleanup may call FT_Done_Glyph on an uninitialized or stale glyph variable. An attacker can supply a malformed font as untrusted bytes to an application that draws text with a nonzero stroke width, forcing the glyph-load failure path. This can corrupt memory or crash the process. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
- Products
- Pillow
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-112893
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 14:53 UTC · Revision 2
Source evidence
Pillow: Invalid free in FreeType glyph rendering when a stroker is active
core-cve · Original sourcePublished 19 Oct 2026, 21:53 UTC
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 10.0.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can free an invalid glyph pointer during FreeType rendering with an active stroker. If FT_Load_Glyph fails, cleanup may call FT_Done_Glyph on an uninitialized or stale glyph variable. An attacker can supply a malformed font as untrusted bytes to an application that draws text with a nonzero stroke width, forcing the glyph-load failure path. This can corrupt memory or crash the process. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
cve:CVE-2026-112893
Pillow
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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