CVE-2023-44271

Description

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.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7

https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3