CVE-2025-48379 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-48379

Pillow Vulnerable to Write Buffer Overflow on BCn encoding

Vulnerability Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. In versions 11.2.0 to before 11.3.0, there is a heap buffer overflow when writing a sufficiently large (>64k encoded with default settings) image in the DDS format due to writing into a buffer without checking for available space. This only affects users who save untrusted data as a compressed DDS image. This issue has been patched in version 11.3.0.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

python-pillow

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Affected Software

Pillow
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 11.2.0, < 11.3.0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 1st, 2025
Last Modified: July 1st, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)