CVE-2018-1125

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-05-17
CWE:
CWE-121
Bugzilla:
1575852: CVE-2018-1125 procps-ng, procps: stack buffer overflow in pgrep
If an argument longer than INT_MAX bytes is given to pgrep, "int bytes" could wrap around back to a large positive int (rather than approaching zero), leading to a stack buffer overflow via strncat().

Find out more about CVE-2018-1125 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 4.4
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 procps-ng Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 procps Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 procps Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Research Labs for reporting this issue.

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