Resource Exhaustion Affecting python-pillow-sane package, versions <0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.12


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-PYTHONPILLOWSANE-6515694
  • published2 Apr 2024
  • disclosed3 Nov 2023

Introduced: 3 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-44271  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 python-pillow-sane to version 0:2.0.0-23.gitd1c6db8.amzn2.0.12 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2508.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-pillow-sane package and not the python-pillow-sane package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1