CVE-2023-4016

Name
CVE-2023-4016
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:procps_project:procps:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* procps >= 3.3.0 <= 4.0.3

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
procps 3.17-main 3.3.17-r2 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
procps 3.16-main 3.3.17-r1 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
procps 3.15-main 3.3.17-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
procps-ng edge-main 4.0.4-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
procps-ng 3.18-main 4.0.4-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed