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pillow — security advisory
In Pillow before 8.1.0, PcxDecode has a buffer over-read when decoding a crafted PCX file because the user-supplied stride value is trusted for buffer calculations.
- Products
- pillow
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 8.1.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-35653
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Pillow before 8.1.0, PcxDecode has a buffer over-read when decoding a crafted PCX file because the user-supplied stride value is trusted for buffer calculations.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35653
pillow
Fixed versions: 8.1.0-1
pillow
Fixed versions: 8.1.0-1
pillow
Fixed versions: 8.1.0-1
Complete source record
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