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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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Affected packages

PyPI/anyio
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.14.2
Fixpip install --upgrade 'anyio>=4.14.2'

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