CVE-2018-1122

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.

Link	Resource
https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122	Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14	Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:procps-ng_project:procps-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Published : 2018-05-23 02:29

Updated : 2019-10-03 12:03

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NVD link : CVE-2018-1122

Mitre link : CVE-2018-1122

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