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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Pillow

CVE-2023-44271

  • Pillow
High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Pillow prior to 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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published