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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1121: procps: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1121: procps: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/30/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/31/2018
Modified
08/13/2018

Description

procps-ng, procps is vulnerable to a process hiding through race condition. Since the kernel's proc_pid_readdir() returns PID entries in ascending numeric order, a process occupying a high PID can use inotify events to determine when the process list is being scanned, and fork/exec to obtain a lower PID, thus avoiding enumeration. An unprivileged attacker can hide a process from procps-ng's utilities by exploiting a race condition in reading /proc/PID entries. This vulnerability affects procps and procps-ng up to version 3.3.15, newer versions might be affected also.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-process-procps

References

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