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CVE-2026-96638

Pillow: BMP RLE decoder memory-amplification DoS via unbounded delta escape / absolute mode PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.1.0 until 13.0.0, BmpRleDecoder.decode() in src/PIL/BmpImagePlugin.py permits crafted RLE BMP delta escapes and absolute-mode runs to append beyond the remaining dest_length without a per-branch cap. A delta can add roughly 255 image rows in one iteration, so a kilobyte-sized file with a large but permitted width can expand the data bytearray to hundreds of megabytes or more, causing memory-exhaustion denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
python-pillow / Pillowaffected >= 9.1.0, < 13.0.0

CWE

CWE-400, CWE-770

References