CVE-2023-44271
pillow - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.24%
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.
How to fix CVE-2023-44271
To remediate CVE-2023-44271, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 10.0.0 or later
- —upgrade to 8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u2 or later
- —upgrade to 8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u2 or later
- —upgrade to 10.0.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 or later
Is CVE-2023-44271 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (5)
- from 0, < 10.0.0
- from 0, < 8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u2
- from 0, < 8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u2
- from 0, < 10.0.0
- from 0, < 1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 | from 0, < 10.0.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |