procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2018-05-23T14:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T03:51:48.790Z
Reserved: 2017-12-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-1122
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-05-23T14:29:00.217
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2018-1122
Redhat