Race Condition Affecting automationhat package, versions [,0.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-AUTOMATIONHAT-6836806
  • published13 May 2024
  • disclosed1 May 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 May 2024

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade automationhat to version 0.2.0 or higher.

Overview

automationhat is a Driver for the Pimoroni Automation HAT

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition due to asynchronous reads from the update_lights thread that interfered with main thread ADC reads, leading to random erroneous readings When auto_lights are enabled.

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