Pillow vulnerabilities
Summary
It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled large glyph advance values in fonts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42308) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled nested coordinate lists in certain APIs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42309) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42310) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed PSD files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42311) Affected Ubuntu releases: 26.04, 25.10, 24.04, 22.04. CVEs: CVE-2026-42310, CVE-2026-42308, CVE-2026-42311, CVE-2026-42309.
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Ubuntu 25.10
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 4 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 4 hours ago·verify at source
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