CVE-2018-1125

Publication date 17 May 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
procps	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1
	17.10 artful	Fixed 2:3.3.12-1ubuntu2.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3

Notes

mdeslaur

[PATCH 008/117] pgrep: Prevent a potential stack-based buffer overflow.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
procps	Upstream: b51ca2a

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H