FreeBSD : Pillow -- Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (998ca824-ef55-11e9-b81f-3085a9a95629)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129954

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Mitre reports :

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/4123

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241268

http://www.nessus.org/u?14bd4383

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129954

File Name: freebsd_pkg_998ca824ef5511e9b81f3085a9a95629.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 10/16/2019

Updated: 1/17/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16865

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py27-pillow, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py35-pillow, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py36-pillow, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py37-pillow, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16865