Pillow has an OOB Write with Invalid PSD Tile Extents (Integer Overflow) — CVE-2026-42311

Summary

### Impact Processing a malicious PSD file could lead to memory corruption, potentially resulting in a crash or arbitrary code execution. ### Patches Patched version: 12.2.0 Pillow 12.1.1 addressed CVE-2026-25990 by adding checks for tile extents in PSD image decoding/encoding to prevent an out-of-bounds write. However, the bounds checks computed tile extent sums using types susceptible to integer overflow, meaning…

Product

pip: pillow

What to do

General, cautious steps (verify details in the official source):

• Prioritize patching or mitigation immediately (treat as actively risky).
• Identify affected product versions in your inventory and verify whether you are impacted.
• Apply vendor patches/updates or recommended mitigations as soon as available.
• Read the official advisory for exact affected versions and remediation steps.

Official advisory

• Read the official source
• CVE Record
• NVD

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