ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2018-1122

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.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.3
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 live-serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
  2. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
  3. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122
  4. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214
  5. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189
  6. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595
  7. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122
  8. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html
  9. https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14
  10. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/
  11. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/
  12. https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208
  13. https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/
  14. https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt
  15. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
  16. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
  17. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122
  18. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214
  19. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189
  20. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595