CVE-2018-1122 Affecting procps package, versions <1:3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (10th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-PROCPS-309326
- published 23 May 2018
- disclosed 23 May 2018
Introduced: 23 May 2018
CVE-2018-1122 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04
procps
to version 1:3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream procps
package and not the procps
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:14.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-1122
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1122
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14
- https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/