RHSA-2020:3302 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python-pillow is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The python-pillow packages contain a Python image processing library that provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image-processing capabilities.

Security Fix(es):

• python-pillow: out-of-bounds reads/writes in the parsing of SGI image files in expandrow/expandrow2 (CVE-2020-11538)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1852814 - CVE-2020-11538 python-pillow: out-of-bounds reads/writes in the parsing of SGI image files in expandrow/expandrow2

CVEs

• CVE-2020-11538

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important