GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp
AnyIO process-pool workers can block indefinitely on undrained stderr
Quick fix
GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp — anyio: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'anyio>=4.14.2'Details
### Impact AnyIO starts process-pool workers with stderr connected to a pipe but never drains that pipe. The worker redirects stdin and stdout to /dev/null to protect its protocol, but does not redirect stderr even though the documentation says all three standard streams are redirected. Worker code that writes enough attacker-influenced data to stderr can fill the pipe, block before returning the stdout protocol response, and wedge the awaiting process-pool call.
Anyone who runs untrusted or faulty code that writes too much to `stderr` is at risk.
### Patches This vulnerability will be patched in v4.14.2.
### Workarounds Closing `sys.stderr` in the target function should at least prevent the deadlock.
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References
- https://github.com/agronholm/anyio/security/advisories/GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp[WEB]
- https://github.com/agronholm/anyio/pull/1207[WEB]
- https://github.com/agronholm/anyio/commit/f1b7301c8264b0d2e8d24a5788fd29e93dea4040[WEB]
- https://github.com/agronholm/anyio[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/agronholm/anyio/releases/tag/4.14.2[WEB]