psutil v5.6.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-11-25 // over 4 years ago
  • 2019-11-25

    🐛 Bug fixes

    • 🐧 1179_, [Linux]: Process.cmdline()_ now takes into account misbehaving processes renaming the command line and using inappropriate chars to separate args.
    • 1616_, [critical]: use of Py_DECREF instead of Py_CLEAR will result in double free() and segfault (CVE-2019-18874 <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18874>__). (patch by Riccardo Schirone)
    • 1619_, [OpenBSD], [critical]: compilation fails due to C syntax error. (patch by Nathan Houghton)