MGASA-2024-0133 - Updated python-pillow packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 15 Apr 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0133.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2023-44271,
     CVE-2024-28219

CVE-2023-44271 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.
CVE-2024-28219 A buffer overflow exists because strcpy is used instead
of strncpy.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32512
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-44271
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-28219

SRPMS:
- 9/core/python-pillow-9.2.0-3.2.mga9

Mageia 2024-0133: python-pillow Security Advisory Updates

CVE-2023-44271 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

Summary

CVE-2023-44271 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. CVE-2024-28219 A buffer overflow exists because strcpy is used instead of strncpy.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32512

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-44271

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-28219

Resolution

MGASA-2024-0133 - Updated python-pillow packages fix security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 9/core/python-pillow-9.2.0-3.2.mga9

Severity
Publication date: 15 Apr 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0133.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-44271, CVE-2024-28219

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