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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1390-1 procps security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4208-1 procps security update
EUVD EUVD 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3658-1 procps-ng vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3658-3 procps-ng vulnerabilities
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History

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-17T22:09:11.636Z

Reserved: 2017-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-1125

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T03:51:48.542Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-05-23T14:29:00.343

Modified: 2025-12-17T22:15:54.927

Link: CVE-2018-1125

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2018-1125 - Bugzilla

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