CVE-2023-44271

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.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
EPSS 0.15%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244 patch
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 patch
https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/ third party advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/ vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html mailing list

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2023-44271?
CVE-2023-44271 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2023-44271?
To fix CVE-2023-44271, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2023-44271 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2023-44271 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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