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.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
7.5 HIGH
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
mitreCNA
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CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 36%
VendorProductVersion
pythonpillow
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< 10.0.0
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= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
pillow
bullseye (security)
8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u2
fixed
bullseye
8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u2
fixed
bookworm
9.4.0-1.1+deb12u1
fixed
bookworm (security)
9.4.0-1.1+deb12u1
fixed
sid
10.4.0-1
fixed
trixie
10.4.0-1
fixed
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
pillow
oracular
not-affected
noble
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
lunar
ignored
jammy
Fixed 9.0.1-1ubuntu0.2
released
focal
Fixed 7.0.0-4ubuntu0.8
released
bionic
needs-triage
xenial
needs-triage
trusty
ignored
pillow-python2
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
lunar
dne
jammy
dne
focal
needs-triage
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/
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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/