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F5 Networks: CVE-2018-1122: K00409335: procps-ng vulnerability CVE-2018-1122

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F5 Networks: CVE-2018-1122: K00409335: procps-ng vulnerability CVE-2018-1122

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/22/2018
Created
01/05/2021
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
12/06/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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