MSRC_CVE-2019-18874

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2019-11-02 00:00 - Updated: 2021-12-16 00:00
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.

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