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Fedora 30 python-psutil FEDORA-2020-a06ebafad8 Critical: double free

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade python-psutil to the latest version 5.6.7 on Fedora. This addresses vulnerabilities associated with CVE-2019-18874 to enhance system security.
Update to 5.6.7 to fix CVE-2019-18874

Summary

psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all

running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, users) in

a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by

command line tools such as: ps, top, df, kill, free, lsof, free, netstat,

ifconfig, nice, ionice, iostat, iotop, uptime, pidof, tty, who, taskset, pmap.

Update to 5.6.7 to fix CVE-2019-18874

* Sun Feb 16 2020 Kevin Fenzi - 5.6.7-1

- Update to 5.6.7. Fixes CVE-2019-18874

[ 1 ] Bug #1768362 - python-psutil-5.6.7 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768362

[ 2 ] Bug #1772015 - CVE-2019-18874 python-psutil: double free because of refcount mishandling [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772015

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-a06ebafad8' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 5.6.7
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: A process and system utilities module for Python

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