procps security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:1700 An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...

procps-ng integer overflow vulnerability

procps-ng is a utility program used on Linux platforms to provide information about proc filesystem processes. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'file2strvec' function in procps-ng versions prior to 3.3.15. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to corrupt the heap and...

Fedora Update for procps-ng FEDORA-2018-de5de06754

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

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...

procps-ng Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

procps-ng is a utility program used on Linux platforms to provide information about proc filesystem processes. A security vulnerability exists in procps-ng versions prior to 3.3.15, which stems from incorrect integer values in proc/alloc.. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability by sending a...

Fedora 27 : procps-ng (2018-de5de06754)

Fixes for : - CVE-2018-1124 - CVE-2018-1126 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

procps-ng denial of service vulnerability

procps-ng is a utility used on Linux platforms to provide information about proc filesystem processes. A security vulnerability exists in procps-ng versions prior to 3.3.15. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a transient denial of service buffer overflow and crash...

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: procps-ng-3.3.10-16.fc27

The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch and pwdx. The ps command displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides a repetitive update of the...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3658-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Oracle Linux 7 : procps-ng (ELSA-2018-1700)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-1700 advisory. - Related: CVE-2018-1124 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has n...

RHEL 7 : procps-ng (RHSA-2018:1700)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1700 advisory. - procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec CVE-2018-1124 - procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in...

Scientific Linux Security Update : procps-ng on SL7.x x86_64 (20180523)

Security Fixes : - procps-ng, procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec CVE-2018-1124 - procps-ng, procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc. leading to truncation / integer overflow issues CVE-2018-1126 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : procps-ng vulnerabilities (USN-3658-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3658-1 advisory. It was discovered that the procps-ng top utility incorrectly read its configuration file from the current working directory. A...

procps: incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation / integer overflow issues

A flaw was found where procps-ng provides wrappers for standard C allocators that took unsigned int instead of sizet parameters. On platforms where these differ such as x8664, this could cause integer truncation, leading to undersized regions being returned to callers that could then be overflowe...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: procps-ng security update

An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

procps: Integer overflows leading to heap overflow in file2strvec

Multiple integer overflows leading to heap corruption flaws were discovered in file2strvec. These vulnerabilities can lead to privilege escalation for a local attacker who can create entries in procfs by starting processes, which will lead to crashes or arbitrary code execution in proc utilities...

USN-3658-1 procps vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the procps-ng top utility incorrectly read its configuration file from the current working directory. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. CVE-2018-1122 It was discovered that the procps-ng ps tool incorrectly handled memory. A local user...

USN-3658-1: procps-ng vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the procps-ng top utility incorrectly read its configuration file from the current working directory. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. CVE-2018-1122 It was discovered that the procps-ng ps tool incorrectly handled memory. A local user...

CVE-2018-1125

procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep. This vulnerability is mitigated by FORTIFY, as it involves strncat to a stack-allocated string. When pgrep is compiled with FORTIFY as on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, the impact is limited to a crash...