CVE-2019-18874

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-18874
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-12 02:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:07:00 UTC
Descriptionpsutil (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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Psutil Project Psutil All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Use Py_CLEAR instead of Py_DECREF to also set the variable to NULL by ret2libc · Pull Request #1616 · giampaolo/psutil · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: python-psutil-5.6.7-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: python-psutil-5.6.7-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1998-1] python-psutil security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: python-psutil-5.6.7-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: python-psutil-5.6.7-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
USN-4204-1: psutil vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159467 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (ELSA-2021-4162)
  • 159488 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for python-psutil (ELSA-2021-4324)
  • 239228 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.9 (RHSA-2021:1313)
  • 239796 Red Hat Update for python-psutil (RHSA-2021:4324)
  • 239845 Red Hat Update for python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (RHSA-2021:4162)
  • 296076 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 19.3.0 Missing (CPUJAN2020)
  • 501365 Alpine Linux Security Update for py3-psutil
  • 900130 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for python-psutil 5.6.3
  • 901698 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for python-psutil (6810-1)
  • 903056 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for python-psutil (4684)
  • 940326 AlmaLinux Security Update for python-psutil (ALSA-2021:4324)
  • 940526 AlmaLinux Security Update for python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (ALSA-2021:4162)
  • 960222 Rocky Linux Security Update for python-psutil (RLSA-2021:4324)
  • 960342 Rocky Linux Security Update for python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (RLSA-2021:4162)
  • 981575 Python (pip) Security Update for psutil (GHSA-qfc5-mcwq-26q8)
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