USN-4204-1: psutil vulnerability
28 November 2019
psutil could be made to crash or run programs.
Releases
Packages
- python-psutil - module providing convenience functions for managing processes
Details
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.