CVE-2014-9601 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Pillow versions prior to 2.7.0, affecting products like fedoraproject, opensuse, oracle, and python. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by providing a PNG image with a compressed text chunk that, when decompressed, consumes excessive resources. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:python:pillow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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