CVE-2023-44271

Summary

CVECVE-2023-44271
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-11-03 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-12 03:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Python Pillow All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Pillow - CVE-2023-44271 - DevHub MISC devhub.checkmarx.com
Added ImageFont.MAX_STRING_LENGTH by radarhere · Pull Request #7244 · python-pillow/Pillow · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: python-pillow-9.5.0-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Added ImageFont.MAX_STRING_LENGTH · python-pillow/Pillow@1fe1bb4 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 161308 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-pillow (ELSA-2024-0345)
  • 200085 Ubuntu Security Notification for Pillow Vulnerabilities (USN-6618-1)
  • 242732 Red Hat Update for python-pillow (RHSA-2024:0345)
  • 257301 CentOS Security Update for python-pillow (CESA-2024:0345)
  • 284727 Fedora Security Update for python (FEDORA-2023-1a120657f9)
  • 296106 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 64.157.2 Missing (CPUOCT2023)
  • 356907 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-pillow : ALAS2023-2023-453
  • 357365 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-pillow : ALAS2-2024-2508
  • 379351 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for python-pillow (ALINUX2-SA-2024:0009)
  • 6000536 Debian Security Update for pillow (DLA 3768-1)
  • 673359 EulerOS Security Update for python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2024-1071)
  • 673798 EulerOS Security Update for python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2024-1095)
  • 673822 EulerOS Security Update for python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2024-1128)
  • 674029 EulerOS Security Update for python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2024-1112)
  • 755279 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-Pillow (SUSE-SU-2023:4465-1)
  • 755321 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-Pillow (SUSE-SU-2023:4528-1)
  • 995838 Python (Pip) Security Update for pillow (GHSA-8ghj-p4vj-mr35)
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