CVE-2018-1123

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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).
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-1123
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-05-23T14:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-06-29T15:15:14
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-122 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:procps-ng_project:procps-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3.3.15
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1123 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/ Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1123
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1123
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:09:30 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 06:33:37 2018-05-23T14:29Z 2018-05-23T14:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 06:33:37 2021-06-29T15:15:14 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 06:33:37 Modified Vulnerability Status updated