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CVE-2025-48379: Pillow vulnerability can cause write buffer overflow on BCn encoding

July 1, 2025 (updated July 2, 2025)

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-xg8h-j46f-w952
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2025-61.yaml
  • github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
  • github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/ef98b3510e3e4f14b547762764813d7e5ca3c5a4
  • github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9041
  • github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/11.3.0
  • github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-xg8h-j46f-w952
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48379

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 11.2.0 before 11.3.0

Fixed versions

  • 11.3.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 11.3.0 or above.

Impact 7.1 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Source file

pypi/Pillow/CVE-2025-48379.yml

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