CVE-2019-18874

Advisory

psutil (aka python-psutil) through 5.6.5 can have a double free. This occurs because of refcount mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object. See CVE-2019-18874.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

psutil (aka python-psutil) through 5.6.5 can have a double free. This occurs because of refcount mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object.


MISC:https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/pull/1616: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/pull/1616
MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20191118 [SECURITY] [DLA 1998-1] python-psutil security update: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00018.html
UBUNTU:USN-4204-1: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4204-1/

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18874
• https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/pull/1616
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00018.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4204-1/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2P7QI7MOTZTFXQYU23CP3RAWXCERMOAS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OLETTJYZL2SMBUI4Q2NGBMGPDPP54SRG/