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CVE-2018-1123 Details

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).

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:3.9 LOWVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1123	CVE	Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E	CVE
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E	CVE
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt	CVE	ExploitThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1123	[email protected]	Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E	[email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E	[email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt	[email protected]	ExploitThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-119	Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer	[email protected]
CWE-122	Heap-based Buffer Overflow	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
procps-ng project procps-ng	< 3.3.15
CPE cpe:2.3:a:procps-ng_project:procps-ng:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
canonical ubuntu linux	12.04 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04
CPE cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::esm::: cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts::: cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::lts::: cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux	7.0 8.0 9.0
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

16 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 29, 2021	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 28, 2021	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 27, 2019	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 26, 2019	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 9, 2019	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Mar 21, 2019	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Oct 21, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 17, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 22, 2018	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Jun 2, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 25, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]

CVE-2018-1123 Details

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