Security advisory

{
  "id": "ec7914d77380a796bafca2de1d549f8fc6b4fa62ff7dd01e0fe9cad0b7bd260b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1125",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-1125",
    "summary": "procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep. This vulnerability is mitigated by FORTIFY, as it involves strncat() to a stack-allocated string. When pgrep is compiled with FORTIFY (as on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora), the impact is limited to a crash.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-1125",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-1125",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-1125"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "7bb949bcba13c107fa0f45d2d0298b1ad6b6d6cc"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:procps-ng_project:procps-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.3.15"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v3.3.14",
            "v3.3.13",
            "v3.3.13rc1",
            "v3.3.12",
            "v3.3.11",
            "v3.3.10",
            "v3.3.9",
            "v3.3.8",
            "v3.3.7",
            "v3.3.6",
            "v3.3.5",
            "v3.3.4",
            "v3.3.3",
            "v3.3.2",
            "v3.3.1",
            "v3.3.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1125.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.694491938Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1125",
        "https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt"
      ],
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              "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:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
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                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
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                  {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "17.10"
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                    "last_affected": "17.10"
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                  {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                  },
                  {
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                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
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              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
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              {
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                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
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                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
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              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "15.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "15.1"
                  }
                ],
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              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-1125",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431426,
  "published_at": "2018-05-23T14:29:00.343+00:00"
}