CVE-2018-1122

Description

procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function.

References

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

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

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

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3