Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3009-1 python-imaging -- security update

Date Reported:
21 Aug 2014
Affected Packages:
python-imaging
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3589.
More information:

Andrew Drake discovered that missing input sanitising in the icns decoder of the Python Imaging Library could result in denial of service if a malformed image is processed.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.7-4+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.3-1 of the pillow source package.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-imaging packages.