diff --git a/SOURCES/0001-Fix-GreenSSLSocket-for-python3-3.6.8-56.el8.patch b/SOURCES/0001-Fix-GreenSSLSocket-for-python3-3.6.8-56.el8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..abd1794
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/0001-Fix-GreenSSLSocket-for-python3-3.6.8-56.el8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 6010f082ee48859a0965c0289cff7434a768d855 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alfredo Moralejo <amoralej@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:08:11 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix GreenSSLSocket for python3-3.6.8-56.el8
+
+In CentOS Stream 8, python3-3.6.8-56.el8 has backported a cve fix which
+changes the behavior of SSLSocket to make it similar to python3 >= 3.7
+[1].  This patch is delaring _timeout while creating the GreenSSLSocket.
+
+[1] https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/python3/-/commit/b1da2b26d2c7066b271a3bdd9d508e97bc38da81
+---
+ eventlet/green/ssl.py | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/eventlet/green/ssl.py b/eventlet/green/ssl.py
+index c49e872..9c20d59 100644
+--- a/eventlet/green/ssl.py
++++ b/eventlet/green/ssl.py
+@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ class GreenSSLSocket(_original_sslsocket):
+             self._timeout = sock.gettimeout()
+ 
+         if _is_under_py_3_7:
++            # This is required for CentOS Stream 8 python 3.6 >= python3-3.6.8-56.el8
++            self._timeout = sock.gettimeout()
+             # nonblocking socket handshaking on connect got disabled so let's pretend it's disabled
+             # even when it's on
+             super(GreenSSLSocket, self).__init__(
+-- 
+2.38.1
+
diff --git a/SPECS/python-eventlet.spec b/SPECS/python-eventlet.spec
index 7eb8ec2..46a77f5 100644
--- a/SPECS/python-eventlet.spec
+++ b/SPECS/python-eventlet.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Name:           python-%{modname}
 Version:        0.33.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        3%{?dist}
 Summary:        Highly concurrent networking library
 %if %bundle_dns
 License:        MIT and ISC
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Patch0:         switch_to_python_cryptography.patch
 # Since Python 3.10 MutableMapping is available in collections.abc instead of collections.
 # This is already fixed in dnspython 2.0.0+, but eventlet still uses old 1.16.0.
 Patch1:         0001-import-MutableMapping-from-collections.abc.patch
+# Fixes GreenSSLSocket for >= python3-3.6.8-56.el8
+Patch2:         0001-Fix-GreenSSLSocket-for-python3-3.6.8-56.el8.patch
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-zmq
 %else
 %setup -n %{modname}-%{version} -q
 %endif
+%patch2 -p1
 
 # Remove dependency on enum-compat from setup.py
 # enum-compat is not needed for Python 3
@@ -123,6 +126,9 @@ nosetests-%{python3_version} -v -e greendns_test -e socket_test -e test_patcher_
 %doc html-3
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Nov 22 2023 Alfredo Moralejo <amoralej@redhat.com> - 0.33.0-3
+- Fixes GreenSSLSocket for >= python3-3.6.8-56.el8
+
 * Fri Jan 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.33.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild