ALSA-2024:8834

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    ALSA-2024:8834

    Published: 5 Nov 2024Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Important: python-gevent security update

    Details: gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of libevent event loop. Features include: * convenient API around greenlets * familiar synchronization primitives (gevent.event, gevent.queue) * socket module that cooperates * WSGI server on top of libevent-http * DNS requests done through libevent-dns * monkey patching utility to get pure Python modules to cooperate Security Fix(es): * python-gevent: privilege escalation via a crafted script to the WSGIServer component (CVE-2023-41419) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8834, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-41419, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2240651, https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-8834.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python3-gevent

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/python3-gevent

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.2-5.el8_10

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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