RHEL 8 : python-pillow (RHSA-2026:98120)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 378745

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for python-pillow.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:98120 advisory.

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* pillow: Pillow: Heap buffer overflow in _tiffWriteProc when saving TIFF to BytesIO (CVE-2026-112393)

* pillow: Pillow: Denial of Service via unbounded recursion in PDF parser (CVE-2026-112391)

* pillow: pillow: Denial of service via double free during image transformation (CVE-2026-112402)

* pillow: pillow: Denial of Service via zero-size images in rank filters (CVE-2026-112392)

* pillow: Pillow: Heap buffer overflow in FlashPix (FPX) JPEG decoding leads to code execution (CVE-2026-112398)

* pillow: pillow: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds memory access on zero-width images (CVE-2026-112397)

* pillow: Pillow: Denial of Service via null pointer dereference in Image.merge() (CVE-2026-112405)

* pillow: pillow: Denial of Service via crafted multi-frame image conversion (CVE-2026-112894)

* pillow: pillow: Denial of service via crafted PDF during append operations (CVE-2026-112895)

* pillow: Pillow: Argument Injection in Ghostscript call, potentially leading into RCE (CVE-2026-112900)

* pillow: pillow: Denial of Service via infinite loop during PDF page rewriting (CVE-2026-112406)

* pillow: pillow: Denial of Service via duplicate page references in PDF files (CVE-2026-96640)

* pillow: pillow: Denial of Service via unbounded memory expansion in MSP image decoder (CVE-2026-112892)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL python-pillow package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:98120.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:98120

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555846

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555851

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555859

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555866

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555867

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555868

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555873

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555875

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555879

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555889

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2556322

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2558576

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2559393

http://www.nessus.org/u?7d86aa4b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 378745

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-98120.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2026

Updated: 11/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.11

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-112900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 8.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-112391, CVE-2026-112392, CVE-2026-112393, CVE-2026-112397, CVE-2026-112398, CVE-2026-112402, CVE-2026-112405, CVE-2026-112406, CVE-2026-112892, CVE-2026-112894, CVE-2026-112895, CVE-2026-112900, CVE-2026-96640

CWE: 124, 125, 1341, 409, 476, 770, 787, 835, 88

RHSA: 2026:98120