vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1122: procps: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 23, 2018
Added
May 31, 2018
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-process-procps
Title
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