CVE-2018-1123

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).

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3