{"id":"RLSA-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\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.","modified":"2026-05-29T18:24:44.373536638Z","published":"2026-05-29T18:01:02.798398Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-41419"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:8834"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240651"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"python-gevent","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/python-gevent?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.2.2-5.el8"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:8834.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}