CVE-2023-44271
Public on 2023-11-03
Modified on 2024-07-17
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.
Severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2 - Core | python-pillow | 2024-03-27 | ALAS2-2024-2508 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | python-pillow | 2023-12-06 | ALAS2023-2023-453 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 2.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |