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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-44271: Moderate: python-pillow security update (ALSA-2024-3005)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-44271: Moderate: python-pillow security update (ALSA-2024-3005)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/03/2023
Created
06/01/2024
Added
05/31/2024
Modified
05/31/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-python3-pillow
  • alma-upgrade-python3-pillow-devel
  • alma-upgrade-python3-pillow-doc
  • alma-upgrade-python3-pillow-tk

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