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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python-Pillow (SUSE-SU-2023:4528-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186233

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4528-1 advisory.

 - 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. (CVE-2023-44271)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected python311-Pillow and / or python311-Pillow-tk packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1216894

http://www.nessus.org/u?7d47860f

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-44271

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186233

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4528-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2023

Updated: 11/24/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44271

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-pillow

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44271

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4528-1