| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3768-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pillow (PTS) | buster | 5.4.1-2+deb10u3 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 5.4.1-2+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 9.4.0-1.1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 10.3.0-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pillow | source | buster | 5.4.1-2+deb10u5 | | DLA-3768-1 | |
| pillow | source | (unstable) | 10.0.0-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - pillow <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - pillow <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 (10.0.0)