🛡️ CVE-2023-44271
🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-770 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-770
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-03
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora
pillow

References

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