CVE-2018-1121
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-13 20:00
Modified
2024-08-05 03:51
Severity ?
3.9 (Low) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Summary
procps-ng, procps is vulnerable to a process hiding through race condition. Since the kernel's proc_pid_readdir() returns PID entries in ascending numeric order, a process occupying a high PID can use inotify events to determine when the process list is being scanned, and fork/exec to obtain a lower PID, thus avoiding enumeration. An unprivileged attacker can hide a process from procps-ng's utilities by exploiting a race condition in reading /proc/PID entries. This vulnerability affects procps and procps-ng up to version 3.3.15, newer versions might be affected also.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1121Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1121Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
[UNKNOWN] procps-ng, procps Version: up to procps-ng 3.3.15 and newer
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