cve-2023-4016
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-02 04:20
Modified
2025-02-13 17:03
Severity ?
2.5 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS score ?
0.04% (0.15455)
Summary
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.
References
trellixpsirt@trellix.comhttps://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procpsProduct
trellixpsirt@trellix.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SUETRRT24OFGPYK6ACPM5VUGHNKH5CQ5/Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procpsProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SUETRRT24OFGPYK6ACPM5VUGHNKH5CQ5/Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Kernal Version: 3.3.0 (might be earlier) - latest
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