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Medium ALAS2-2024-2508 1 CVE

Moderate: python-pillow security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 27, 2024 · Updated Mar 27, 2024

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-44271: 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.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.12
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-debuginfo 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.12
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-devel 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.12
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-doc 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.12
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-sane 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.12
Amazon Linux · 2 python-pillow-tk 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.12

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2023-44271

    Pillow Denial of Service vulnerability

    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 textleng…

    pillow pillow pillow pillow-python2 Debian Ubuntu PyPI

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-44271.html