Home / mailings [RHSA-2020:2583-01] Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.9 python-psutil security update
Posted on 23 June 2020
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.9 python-psutil security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2583-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2583
Issue date: 2020-06-22
CVE Names: CVE-2019-18874
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1. Summary:
An update for python-psutil is now available for Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 4.4.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 - x86_64
3. Description:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.
Security Fix(es):
* python-psutil: A double free issue has been discovered in python-psutil
that may allow a local attacker to get code execution with the privileges
of the user running the python-psutil application. (CVE-2019-18874)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
4. Solution:
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 see the following documentation, which
will be updated shortly for release 4.4.9, for important instructions on
how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/release_notes/ocp-4-4-rel
ease-notes.html
Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/updating/updating-cluster
- -cli.html.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1772014 - CVE-2019-18874 python-psutil: double free because of refcount mishandling
6. Package List:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4:
Source:
python-psutil-5.6.6-1.el7ar.src.rpm
x86_64:
python-psutil-debuginfo-5.6.6-1.el7ar.x86_64.rpm
python2-psutil-5.6.6-1.el7ar.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18874
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
