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procps, procps-ng — security advisory
Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the “ps” utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap.
- Products
- procps, procps-ng
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.3.17-r1, 3.3.17-r2, 3.3.17-r3, 4.0.4-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-4016
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 14:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the “ps” utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2023-4016
procps
Fixed versions: 3.3.17-r1
procps
Fixed versions: 3.3.17-r2
procps
Fixed versions: 3.3.17-r3
procps-ng
Fixed versions: 4.0.4-r0
procps-ng
Fixed versions: 4.0.4-r0
procps-ng
Fixed versions: 4.0.4-r0
procps-ng
Fixed versions: 4.0.4-r0
procps-ng
Fixed versions: 4.0.4-r0
procps-ng
Fixed versions: 4.0.4-r0
procps-ng
Fixed versions: 4.0.4-r0
Complete source record
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