SB2019080716 - Red Hat update for procps-ng
Published: August 7, 2019 Updated: August 8, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019080716
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1124)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.The weakness exists due to integer overflow in libprocps's file2strvec() function. A local attacker can execute a vulnerable utility (pgrep, pidof, pkill, and w are vulnerable by default; other utilities are vulnerable if executed with non-default options) and gain elevated privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.