CVE-2023-44271: High severity Python Pillow vulnerability

Published Nov 3, 2023
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Updated

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 Software

8 affected componentsFixes available
ubuntu/pillow<7.0.0-4ubuntu0.8
7.0.0-4ubuntu0.8
ubuntu/pillow<9.0.1-1ubuntu0.2
9.0.1-1ubuntu0.2
ubuntu/pillow<10.0.0-1
10.0.0-1
pip/pillow>=0<10.0.0
10.0.0
Python Pillow<10.0.0
Fedoraproject Fedora=38
redhat/pillow<10.0.0
10.0.0
debian/pillow
9.4.0-1.1+deb12u111.1.0-5+deb13u411.1.0-5+deb13u312.3.0-113.0.0-1

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/pillow to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.0.0-4ubuntu0.8
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/pillow to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 9.0.1-1ubuntu0.2
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/pillow to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 10.0.0-1
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade pip/pillow to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 10.0.0
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/Pillow to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 10.0.0
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade debian/pillow to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 9.4.0-1.1+deb12u1Fixed in 11.1.0-5+deb13u4Fixed in 11.1.0-5+deb13u3Fixed in 12.3.0-1Fixed in 13.0.0-1

Event History

Nov 3, 2023
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:00 AM
Description
Advisory Published
via GitHub·06:36 AM
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·04:39 PM
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