procps-ng elevation of privilege vulnerability

procps-ng is a utility used on Linux platforms to provide information about proc filesystem processes. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the 'configfile' function of top in versions of procps-ng prior to 3.3.15. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges...

procps-ng pgrep buffer overflow vulnerability

procps-ng is a utility used on Linux platforms to provide information about processes on the proc file system. pgrep is one of the command line tools used to find process IDs. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in pgrep in versions of procps-ng prior to 3.3.15. A detailed vulnerability...