GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-xg8h-j46f-w952 Pillow vulnerability can cause write buffer overflow on BCn encoding
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-48379
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- pillow
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122
- Reviewed
- 2025-07-01
Affected packages
• PyPI pillow: >= 11.2.0, < 11.3.0 → fixed in 11.3.0
Description
There is a heap buffer overflow when writing a sufficiently large (>64k encoded with default settings) image in the DDS format due to writing into a buffer without checking for available space.
This only affects users who save untrusted data as a compressed DDS image.
• Unclear how large the potential write could be. It is likely limited by process segfault, so it's not necessarily deterministic. It may be practically unbounded.
• Unclear if there's a restriction on the bytes that could be emitted. It's likely that the only restriction is that the bytes would be emitted in chunks of 8 or 16.
This was introduced in Pillow 11.2.0 when the feature was added.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-48379 Pillow is a Python imaging library. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-xg8h-j46f-w952 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48379 advisory
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9041 web
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/ef98b3510e3e4f14b547762764813d7e5ca3c5a4 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2025-61.yaml web
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow package
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/11.3.0 web