Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 12.3.0, PIL/BdfFontFile.py bdfchar() read the BBX width and height field from a BDF font file and passed attacker-controlled dimensions to Image.new() without calling Image.decompressionbombcheck(), bypassing Pillow's documented decompression bomb protection and allowing excessive memory allocation. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.
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