CVE-2023-44271 (GCVE-0-2023-44271)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 19:59
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Summary
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.
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