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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0122: python-pillow (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0122)
high Nessus Plugin ID 236253
Synopsis
The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0122 advisory.Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2023-44271:
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.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20240122.xml
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 236253
File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0122.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Published: 5/14/2025
Updated: 5/14/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44271
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.7
Threat Score: 6.6
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-pillow-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-pillow-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python-pillow-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-pillow-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-pillow, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-pillow-tk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python-pillow-debuginfo
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-44271