CVE-2018-1123
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a denial of service in ps via mmap buffer overflow. Inbuilt protection in ps maps a guard page at the end of the overflowed buffer, ensuring that the impact of this flaw is limited to a crash (temporary denial of service).
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1123
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1123.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 3.3.15-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.