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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python38-babel  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PYTHON38BABEL-1916630
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Nov 2019
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Introduced: 7 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18874  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python38-babel package and not the python38-babel package as distributed by RHEL.

psutil (aka python-psutil) through 5.6.5 can have a double free. This occurs because of refcount mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object.