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CVE-2026-55379

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-07-06 Modified: 2026-07-07

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 12.3.0, PIL/BdfFontFile.py bdf_char() read the BBX width and height field from a BDF font file and passed attacker-controlled dimensions to Image.new() without calling Image._decompression_bomb_check(), bypassing Pillow's documented decompression bomb protection and allowing excessive memory allocation. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.

Affected Platforms

Python Pillow

Weakness Type

CWE-789

References