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Pillow: Invalid free in FreeType glyph rendering when a stroker is active

Type: advisorySources: Official CVE List

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 source

Published 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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