UBUNTU-CVE-2023-44271

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-44271

    Published: 3 Nov 2023Last Modified: 2 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-44271

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-44271, https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6618-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44271, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8135-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pillow

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm5?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm5

    Affected versions

    2.2.1-1ubuntu2
    2.2.1-2ubuntu1
    2.2.1-3ubuntu2
    2.2.1-3ubuntu3
    2.2.1-3ubuntu4
    2.2.1-3ubuntu6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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