Race Condition Affecting pyinstaller package, versions [,5.8.0)
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- published 1 Aug 2024
- disclosed 1 Aug 2024
- credit Unknown
How to fix?
Upgrade pyinstaller to version 5.8.0 or higher.
Overview
pyinstaller is a package that bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition when processes are spawned concurrently from multiple threads. This issue particularly affects the "spawn" method of multiprocessing, which is not thread-safe on Linux.
Note
This only affects Linux users.