CVE-2020-35653: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Pillow before 8.1.0, PcxDecode has a buffer over-read when decoding a crafted PCX file because the user-supplied stride value is trusted for buffer calculations.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 32 only; version 33 only
• Python Pillow: before 8.1.0 (fixed in 8.1.0)

Published 2021-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.