GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp
AnyIO process-pool workers can block indefinitely on undrained stderr
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### 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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.