Bug 1214314 (CVE-2023-38898)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-38898: python,python39,python36,python3,python311,python310: An attacker can obtain sensitive information via the _asyncio._swap_current_task component
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Cathy Hu <cathy.hu>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Matej Cepl <mcepl>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	daniel.garcia, security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/375459/
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Cathy Hu 2023-08-16 07:25:28 UTC

CVE-2023-38898

An issue in Python cpython v.3.7 allows an attacker to obtain sensitive
information via the _asyncio._swap_current_task component.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-38898
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38898
http://python.com
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/105987

Comment 1 Cathy Hu 2023-08-16 07:27:14 UTC

The issue was introduced with this commit: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a474e04388c2ef6aca75c26cb70a1b6200235feb

this is only in 3.12, which we dont have, so tracking all as not affected, closing

Comment 2 Daniel Garcia 2023-08-16 07:46:07 UTC

We have python 3.12rc1 in Factory.