{"id":"ALSA-2024:8834","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  \n\nSecurity Fix(es):  \n\n  * python-gevent: privilege escalation via a crafted script to the WSGIServer component (CVE-2023-41419)\n\n\nFor 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.\n","modified":"2026-02-04T02:33:25.952095Z","published":"2024-11-05T00:00:00Z","related":["CVE-2023-41419"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8834"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-41419"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2240651"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-8834.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"python3-gevent","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/python3-gevent"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.2.2-5.el8_10"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2024:8834.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}