CVE-2018-1123

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).

• CWE-122
• CWE-119

• 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/q2/122Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1123Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txtExploit, 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
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1123Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

May 23, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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