CVE-2020-5311

An out-of-bounds write flaw was discovered in python-pillow in the way SGI RLE images are decoded. An application that uses python-pillow to decode untrusted images may be vulnerable to this flaw, which can allow an attacker to crash the application or potentially execute code on the system.

This issue did not affect the versions of python-pillow and python-imaging as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and 7 as they did not include the SGI RLE image decoder, where the flaw lies.

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