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Fedora 41: python-watchfiles 2025-e5d435516f critical: double free issue

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2025
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The latest patch for python-watchfiles resolves CVE-2025-4574; a significant enhancement achieved through the implementation of rust-crossbeam-channel.
Security fix for CVE-2025-4574 (fix RHBZ#2366569) The package was rebuilt with rust-crossbeam-channel 0.5.15.

Summary

Simple, modern and high performance file watching and code reload in python.

Underlying file system notifications are handled by the Notify rust library.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2025-4574 (fix RHBZ#2366569) The package was rebuilt with rust-crossbeam-channel 0.5.15.

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security advisory Fedora security fix double free python-watchfiles crossbeam-channel

Change Log

* Thu May 15 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley - 1.0.3-4 - Security fix for CVE-2025-4574 (fix RHBZ#2366569) - The package was rebuilt with rust-crossbeam-channel 0.5.15. * Thu May 15 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley - 1.0.3-3 - Assert that .dist-info contains license files

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2366569 - CVE-2025-4574 python-watchfiles: crossbeam-channel Vulnerable to Double Free on Drop [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2366569

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-e5d435516f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: python-watchfiles
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.0.3
Release: 4.fc41
URL: https://github.com/samuelcolvin/watchfiles
Summary: Simple, modern and high performance file watching and code reload in python

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security advisory Fedora security fix double free python-watchfiles crossbeam-channel

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