CVE-2023-44271

Advisory

Pillow 10.0.0 includes a fix for CVE-2023-44271: 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.
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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. See CVE-2023-44271.


MISC:https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/: https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/
MISC:https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7
MISC:https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244

Resources

• 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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-44271
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/