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Medium RLSA-2024:3005 1 CVE

Moderate: python-pillow security update

Published Jun 14, 2024 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

The python-pillow packages contain a Python image processing library that provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image-processing capabilities.

Security Fix(es):

* python-pillow: uncontrolled resource consumption when textlength in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument (CVE-2023-44271)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 python-pillow 0:5.1.1-20.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    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…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247820