BREW-PILLOW-CVE-2023-44271 (CVE-2023-44271)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:28 – Updated: 2026-09-10 20:25 – Source website
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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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        "fix": "bump",
        "range_state": "fixed",
        "upstream_fixed_in": "10.0.0"
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      },
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            },
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    "source": "matched",
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  "id": "BREW-pillow-CVE-2023-44271",
  "modified": "2026-09-10T20:25:15Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T17:28:20Z",
  "references": [
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    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/"
    },
    {
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44271"
    },
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      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7"
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      "url": "https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244"
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}



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