CVE-2022-45198

Publication date 14 November 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Pillow before 9.2.0 performs Improper Handling of Highly Compressed GIF Data (Data Amplification).

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
pillow	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.0.1-1ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 7.0.0-4ubuntu0.7
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
pillow-python2	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 6.2.1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

gif decompression bomb issue

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
pillow	Upstream: c9f1b35

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H