GHSA-8ghj-p4vj-mr35

Pillow Denial of Service vulnerability

At a glance

Published: 2023-11-03 06:36 UTC
Updated: 2024-10-14 21:23 UTC
CVE: CVE-2023-44271
Aliases: BIT-pillow-2023-44271, PYSEC-2023-227
CVSS_V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS_V4: 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

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 packages

Package	Versions
PyPI · pillow	introduced 0, fixed 10.0.0

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44271 ADVISORY
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244 WEB
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 WEB
https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271 WEB
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2023-227.yaml WEB
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow PACKAGE
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html WEB
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4 WEB

Sources

Source	Licence
OSV.dev	CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database