INFSA-2024:3005: python-pillow security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2024:3005

Type: security

Release date: 2024-08-28 10:29:24 UTC

Information about package

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.

Vulnerabilities description

  • 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.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.5 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages