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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:7421 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2024-10-01
Updated:
2024-10-01

RHSA-2024:7421 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: python-gevent security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for python-gevent is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2240651 - CVE-2023-41419 python-gevent: privilege escalation via a crafted script to the WSGIServer component

CVEs

  • CVE-2023-41419

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6

SRPM
python-gevent-1.2.2-5.el8_6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9443d3235cc9a1b53338e20903cb4bf778376deefdb918dfe9a979d0ec46612a
x86_64
python-gevent-debugsource-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eca9a059f913fcafa2245f71f5949bf4f3d8fe0171f51a05cc4a840e505777dc
python3-gevent-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a48e7d241397fe754243d1ad51f8d73d094cf0a8a437c8620bec93e81d3dfc7e
python3-gevent-debuginfo-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8bec2b1efb6bc6db7e2107e6b8eee3756edffe0187e7e89981b157fe2a4e6201

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6

SRPM
python-gevent-1.2.2-5.el8_6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9443d3235cc9a1b53338e20903cb4bf778376deefdb918dfe9a979d0ec46612a
x86_64
python-gevent-debugsource-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eca9a059f913fcafa2245f71f5949bf4f3d8fe0171f51a05cc4a840e505777dc
python3-gevent-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a48e7d241397fe754243d1ad51f8d73d094cf0a8a437c8620bec93e81d3dfc7e
python3-gevent-debuginfo-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8bec2b1efb6bc6db7e2107e6b8eee3756edffe0187e7e89981b157fe2a4e6201

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6

SRPM
python-gevent-1.2.2-5.el8_6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9443d3235cc9a1b53338e20903cb4bf778376deefdb918dfe9a979d0ec46612a
ppc64le
python-gevent-debugsource-1.2.2-5.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: abf9f06d7337cdc84672d6b30caabfa083ab0cc75e2fcbd73fc00f920915f003
python3-gevent-1.2.2-5.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b8a36d0b35562cb4419de7f13e4e0e00a7f9d274d73cb20f8187157bf60acf1e
python3-gevent-debuginfo-1.2.2-5.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: be7c256b5fdb90d835709f213f0202647faed16a5a1d8e083704919845720698

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6

SRPM
python-gevent-1.2.2-5.el8_6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9443d3235cc9a1b53338e20903cb4bf778376deefdb918dfe9a979d0ec46612a
x86_64
python-gevent-debugsource-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eca9a059f913fcafa2245f71f5949bf4f3d8fe0171f51a05cc4a840e505777dc
python3-gevent-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a48e7d241397fe754243d1ad51f8d73d094cf0a8a437c8620bec93e81d3dfc7e
python3-gevent-debuginfo-1.2.2-5.el8_6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8bec2b1efb6bc6db7e2107e6b8eee3756edffe0187e7e89981b157fe2a4e6201

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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