Bug 2247820 (CVE-2023-44271)

Summary:	CVE-2023-44271 python-pillow: uncontrolled resource consumption when textlength in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	adudiak, bdettelb, davidn, epacific, hkataria, jcammara, jhardy, jmitchel, jneedle, jobarker, jtanner, kaycoth, kshier, mabashia, osapryki, rbobbitt, simaishi, smcdonal, stcannon, teagle, tfister, yguenane, zsadeh
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	Pillow 10.0.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Pillow. A denial of service issue 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 text length in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2247821
Bug Blocks:	2247822

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-11-03 16:39:47 UTC

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://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-11-03 16:44:01 UTC

Created python-pillow tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2247821]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2024-01-23 16:20:07 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2024:0345 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0345

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2024-02-29 19:41:41 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2024:1057 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1057

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2024-05-22 09:34:09 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:3005 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3005