USN-8399-1: Pillow vulnerabilities

Published Jun 8, 2026
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Updated

It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled large glyph advance values in fonts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42308) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled nested coordinate lists in certain APIs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42309) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42310) It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed PSD files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42311)

Affected Software

9 affected componentsFixes available
pypi/Pillow
All of the following
ubuntu/python3-pil<12.1.1-2ubuntu1.2
12.1.1-2ubuntu1.2
Ubuntu Ubuntu=26.04
All of the following
ubuntu/python3-pil<11.3.0-1ubuntu1.3
11.3.0-1ubuntu1.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu=25.10
All of the following
ubuntu/python3-pil<10.2.0-1ubuntu1.2
10.2.0-1ubuntu1.2
Ubuntu Ubuntu=24.04
All of the following
ubuntu/python3-pil<9.0.1-1ubuntu0.4
9.0.1-1ubuntu0.4
Ubuntu Ubuntu=22.04

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/python3-pil to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 12.1.1-2ubuntu1.2
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/python3-pil to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 11.3.0-1ubuntu1.3
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/python3-pil to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 10.2.0-1ubuntu1.2
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/python3-pil to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 9.0.1-1ubuntu0.4

Event History

Jun 8, 2026
Advisory Published
via Ubuntu·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via Ubuntu·12:00 AM
DescriptionAffected Software

Child vulnerabilities

Contains the following vulnerabilities.

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