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ALSA-2024:8834

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux – Published: 2024-11-05 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-06 10:11 – Source website

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

URL

Type

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

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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "AlmaLinux:8",
        "name": "python3-gevent"
      },
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            {
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            }
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "id": "ALSA-2024:8834",
  "modified": "2024-11-06T10:11:50Z",
  "published": "2024-11-05T00:00:00Z",
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    },
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    },
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2240651"
    },
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    }
  ],
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    "CVE-2023-41419"
  ],
  "summary": "Important: python-gevent security update"
}

CVE-2023-41419 (GCVE-0-2023-41419)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-25 00:11

Summary

An issue in Gevent before version 23.9.0 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted script to the WSGIServer component.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/gevent/gevent/issues/1989
https://github.com/gevent/gevent/commit/2f53c851e…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

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            "url": "https://github.com/gevent/gevent/commit/2f53c851eaf926767fbac62385615efd4886221c"
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    "datePublished": "2023-09-25T00:00:00.000Z",
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