Advisory Published

USN-4204-1: psutil vulnerability

First published: Thu Nov 28 2019(Updated: )

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.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/python-psutil<5.5.1-1ubuntu0.19.10.1
5.5.1-1ubuntu0.19.10.1
Ubuntu Linux=19.10
All of
ubuntu/python3-psutil<5.5.1-1ubuntu0.19.10.1
5.5.1-1ubuntu0.19.10.1
Ubuntu Linux=19.10
All of
ubuntu/python-psutil<5.5.1-1ubuntu0.19.04.1
5.5.1-1ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu Linux=19.04
All of
ubuntu/python3-psutil<5.5.1-1ubuntu0.19.04.1
5.5.1-1ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu Linux=19.04
All of
ubuntu/python-psutil<5.4.2-1ubuntu0.1
5.4.2-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/python3-psutil<5.4.2-1ubuntu0.1
5.4.2-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/python-psutil<3.4.2-1ubuntu0.1
3.4.2-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/python3-psutil<3.4.2-1ubuntu0.1
3.4.2-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Linux=16.04

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