CVE-2019-18874 (GCVE-0-2019-18874)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-12 01:30 – Updated: 2024-08-05 02:02
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/pull/1616 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4204-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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