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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
[UNKNOWN] procps-ng, procps
procps-ng 3.3.15affected
References
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/ ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 ↗
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122 ↗
- https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595 ↗