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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-1122: Security patch for procps-ng (ALAS-2019-1333)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-1122: Security patch for procps-ng (ALAS-2019-1333)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/23/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-procps-ng
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-procps-ng-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-procps-ng-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-procps-ng-i18n

References

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