CVE-2018-1122

Publication date

2018-05-23 14:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

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.