Race Condition Affecting pyinstaller package, versions [,5.8.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYINSTALLER-7577208
  • published1 Aug 2024
  • disclosed1 Aug 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Aug 2024

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

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.

References

CVSS Scores

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