CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-44271
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-11-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
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.
Affected configurations
• python pillow (< 10.0.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 38
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 Patch
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 Patch
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory