procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep. This vulnerability is mitigated by FORTIFY, as it involves strncat() to a stack-allocated string. When pgrep is compiled with FORTIFY (as on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora), the impact is limited to a crash.
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DLA-1390-1 | procps security update |
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DSA-4208-1 | procps security update |
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EUVD-2018-11769 | procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep. This vulnerability is mitigated by FORTIFY, as it involves strncat() to a stack-allocated string. When pgrep is compiled with FORTIFY (as on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora), the impact is limited to a crash. |
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USN-3658-1 | procps-ng vulnerabilities |
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USN-3658-3 | procps-ng vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T03:51:48.542Z
Reserved: 2017-12-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-1125

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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-05-23T14:29:00.343
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:59:14.113
Link: CVE-2018-1125


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