vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-1122): procps-ng vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 22, 2018
Added
Jun 1, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libprocps3ubuntu-upgrade-libprocps4ubuntu-upgrade-libprocps6ubuntu-upgrade-procps
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