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CVE-2018-1123

Date: May 23, 2018

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).

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (19)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1123

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-1123

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214

Url: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1123

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html

Url: https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1123

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1123

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-1123

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-122

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2018-1123

Date: May 23, 2018

Language: C

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