suse · CVE-2018-1122

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 14:06:56 UTC Updated: 2026-04-17 15:44:03 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-1122 severity moderate: SUSE including 496 source package names (0.1.0:libprocps7-3.3.15-7.7.26, 0.1.0:procps-3.3.15-7.7.26, …), 961 product×package rows across 486 product lines (Container bci/bci-init, Container bci/gcc, … (486 product lines)): Fixed 804, Known Affected 157.

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.

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