High
Security advisory
procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows leading to a heap corruption in file2strvec function. This allows a privilege escalation for a local attacker who can create entries in procfs by starting processes, which could result in crashes or arbitrary code execution in proc utilities run by other users.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1124
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows leading to a heap corruption in file2strvec function. This allows a privilege escalation for a local attacker who can create entries in procfs by starting processes, which could result in crashes or arbitrary code execution in proc utilities run by other users.
osv:CVE-2018-1124
Complete source record
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