high7.5
CVE-2023-44271
Pillow Denial of Service vulnerability
Impact
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 10.0.0. It is a Denial of Service that uncontrollably allocates memory to process a given task, potentially causing a service to crash by having it run out of memory. This occurs for truetype in ImageFont when textlength in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | pillow | >= 0, < 10.0.0 | 10.0.0 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Python | Pillow | before 10.0.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Version 38 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8ghj-p4vj-mr35
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44271
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2023-227.yaml
- https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4