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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-11765 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T03:51:48.742Z

Reserved: 2017-12-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-1121

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-13T20:29:00.337

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:59:13.500

Link: CVE-2018-1121

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-05-17T17:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-1121 - Bugzilla

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