Procps-ng

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Procps-ng, a product in the operating systems space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Severity distribution

Monthly trend

The 6 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Procps-ng.

• CVE-2023-4016Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the “ps” utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap.2.5Aug 2, 2023
• CVE-2018-1122procps-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 es...7.3May 23, 2018
• CVE-2018-1123procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a denial of service in ps via mmap buffer overflow. Inbuilt protection in ps maps a guard page at the end of the overflowed buffer, ensuring that th...3.9May 23, 2018
• CVE-2018-1125procps-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 co...7.5May 23, 2018
• CVE-2018-1126procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to an incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation/integer overflow issues. This flaw is related to CVE-2018-1124.4.8May 23, 2018
• CVE-2018-1124procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows leading to a heap corruption in file2strvec function. This allows a privilege escalation for a local attacker who can cre...7.8May 23, 2018