CVE - CVE-2018-1122

CVE-ID
CVE-2018-1122	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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BID:104214 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122 DEBIAN:DSA-4208 URL:https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 EXPLOIT-DB:44806 URL:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ GENTOO:GLSA-201805-14 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 MISC:https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20180531 [SECURITY] [DLA 1390-1] procps security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html MLIST:[oss-security] 20180517 Qualys Security Advisory - Procps-ng Audit Report URL:http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 REDHAT:RHSA-2019:2189 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189 REDHAT:RHSA-2020:0595 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2019:2376 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2019:2379 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html UBUNTU:USN-3658-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ UBUNTU:USN-3658-3 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20171204	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20171204)
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