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CVE-2023-44271: PYSEC-2023-227 - 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, pot

CVE-2023-44271 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2023-11-03

Technologies: pillow (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

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 products

  • PyPI pillow

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