ID:6360 - Exploit for Integer overflow in procps - CVE-2018-1124

 
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ID:6360 - Exploit for Integer overflow in procps - CVE-2018-1124

Published: June 17, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12977
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1124
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Local access
Vulnerable software:
procps

Link to public exploit:


Vulnerability description

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

Update to version 3.3.15.