High severity · published May 23, 2018
CVE-2018-1123
procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a denial of service in ps via mmap buffer overflow
7.5
CVSS
8.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)8.9% · higher than 95% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0; 8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
PR
Procps-ng · Procps-ng Project
before 3.3.15 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
12.04; 14.04; 16.04; 17.10; 18.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1123
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1123
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1123
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
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