PYSEC-2014-22

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2014-1932
Aliases
GHSA-x895-2wrm-hvp7

Description

The (1) load_djpeg function in JpegImagePlugin.py, (2) Ghostscript function in EpsImagePlugin.py, (3) load function in IptcImagePlugin.py, and (4) _copy function in Image.py in Python Image Library (PIL) 1.1.7 and earlier and Pillow before 2.3.1 do not properly create temporary files, which allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on the temporary file.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · pillowintroduced 0, fixed 4e9f367dfd3f04c8f5d23f7f759ec12782e10ee7 ; introduced 0, fixed 2.3.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
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