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PYSEC-2019-41

Quick fix

PYSEC-2019-41 — psutil: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'psutil>=5.6.6'

Details

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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Affected packages

PyPI/psutil

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 5.6.6

Fixpip install --upgrade 'psutil>=5.6.6'

References

https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/pull/1616[WEB]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00018.html[WEB]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4204-1/[WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2P7QI7MOTZTFXQYU23CP3RAWXCERMOAS/[WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OLETTJYZL2SMBUI4Q2NGBMGPDPP54SRG/[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qfc5-mcwq-26q8[ADVISORY]