Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.2.0 until 12.3.0, Pillow's TGA RLE encoder reads past its packed row buffer when saving a mode 1 image with TGA RLE compression, allowing adjacent process heap bytes to be copied into the generated TGA file. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-fj7v-r99m-22gq | Pillow TGA RLE encoder can serialize up to ~57 KB of adjacent heap data into generated images |
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| Description | Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.2.0 until 12.3.0, Pillow's TGA RLE encoder reads past its packed row buffer when saving a mode 1 image with TGA RLE compression, allowing adjacent process heap bytes to be copied into the generated TGA file. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0. | |
| Title | Pillow TGA RLE encoder can serialize up to ~57 KB of adjacent heap data into generated images | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-125 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-14T19:55:56.380Z
Reserved: 2026-07-02T19:53:48.831Z
Link: CVE-2026-59198
Updated: 2026-07-14T19:44:53.117Z
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-07-17T22:15:16Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA