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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-1126: ELSA-2018-1700: procps-ng security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-1126: ELSA-2018-1700: procps-ng security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/17/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/24/2018
Modified
07/22/2024

Description

procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to an incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation/integer overflow issues. This flaw is related to CVE-2018-1124. A flaw was found where procps-ng provides wrappers for standard C allocators that took `unsigned int` instead of `size_t` parameters. On platforms where these differ (such as x86_64), this could cause integer truncation, leading to undersized regions being returned to callers that could then be overflowed. The only known exploitable vector for this issue is CVE-2018-1124.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-procps-ng
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-procps-ng-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-procps-ng-i18n

References

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