CVE-2018-1125 Memory corruption in procps-ng, procps

What is CVE-2018-1125?

CVE-2018-1125 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-121

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1125?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Leap, Procps-Ng Project Procps-Ng.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1125?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-1125 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1125 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1125, GHSA-jpw5-97m6-c8m2, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1125.