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Ubuntu: USN-6477-1 (CVE-2023-4016): procps-ng vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 2, 2023
Added
Nov 15, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the “ps” utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-procpsubuntu-upgrade-procps
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