CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-4016

3.3 LOW Published 2023-08-02 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-02
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
2.5 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-122, CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• procps project procps (>= 3.3.0 <= 4.0.3) • fedoraproject fedora 38

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References