Medium: procps-ng

Issue Overview:

If the HOME environment variable is unset or empty, top will read its configuration file from the current working directory without any security check. 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.(CVE-2018-1122)

Affected Packages:

procps-ng

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update procps-ng to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    procps-ng-3.3.10-26.amzn2.aarch64  
    procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-26.amzn2.aarch64  
    procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-26.amzn2.aarch64  
    procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    procps-ng-3.3.10-26.amzn2.i686  
    procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-26.amzn2.i686  
    procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-26.amzn2.i686  
    procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.amzn2.i686  
  
src:  
    procps-ng-3.3.10-26.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    procps-ng-3.3.10-26.amzn2.x86_64  
    procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-26.amzn2.x86_64  
    procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-26.amzn2.x86_64  
    procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-1122

Mitre: CVE-2018-1122