Out-of-Bounds Affecting procps-ng package, versions [,4.0.6-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PROCPSNG-5830590
  • published9 Aug 2023
  • disclosed2 Aug 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-4016  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade procps-ng to version 4.0.6-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Under 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1