Advisories » MGASA-2019-0370

Updated python-psutil packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Dec 2019
Modification date: 06 Dec 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-18874

Description

Updated python-psutil packages fix security vulnerability:

Riccardo Schirone discovered that psutil incorrectly handled certain
reference counting operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause
psutil to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code (CVE-2019-18874).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25791
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4204-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18874

SRPMS

7/core

• python-psutil-5.6.7-1.mga7