QID 357365

Date Published: 2024-04-02

QID 357365: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-pillow : ALAS2-2024-2508

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. (
( CVE-2023-44271) affected versions of this package are vulnerable to denial of service (dos) when using arbitrary strings as text input and the number of characters passed into pil.imagefont.imagefont.getmask() is over a certain limit.
This can lead to a system crash. affected versions of this package are vulnerable to denial of service (dos) if the size of individual glyphs extends beyond the bitmap image, when using pil.imagefont.
Imagefont function.
Exploiting this vulnerability could lead to a system crash. affected versions of this package are vulnerable to command injection in filenames that contain single quotes via load_djpeg.



Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a securitybreach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
    • Solution
    Please refer to Amazon advisory: ALAS2-2024-2508 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 357365

    CVE-2023-44271 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    ALAS2-2024-2508 amazon linux 2 URL Logo alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2508.html
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