CVE-2018-1123
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 3.9 Low
- Published
- May 23, 2018
- Updated
- Dec 17, 2025
- Reserved
- Dec 4, 2017
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).
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 3.9 Low | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
procps-ng, procps[UNKNOWN] |
|
References
- USN-3658-1vendor-advisory
- DSA-4208vendor-advisory
- GLSA-201805-14vendor-advisory
- 44806exploit
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180531 [SECURITY] [DLA 1390-1] procps security updatemailing-list
- USN-3658-3vendor-advisory
- 104214vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20180517 Qualys Security Advisory - Procps-ng Audit Reportmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1123
- https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2376vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2379vendor-advisory
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
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