ubuntu · CVE-2018-1122

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-05-17 17:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:44:40 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-1122 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (procps), 5 status rows across 5 suites (artful, bionic, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 5.

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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