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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-1122: Vulnerability in Watch

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-1122: Vulnerability in Watch

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/23/2018
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-shell-watch-3-3-15-11-4-18-0-1-1-0

References

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