CVE-2018-1121 (GCVE-0-2018-1121)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-13 20:00
Modified
2024-08-05 03:51
CWE
Summary
procps-ng, procps is vulnerable to a process hiding through race condition. Since the kernel's proc_pid_readdir() returns PID entries in ascending numeric order, a process occupying a high PID can use inotify events to determine when the process list is being scanned, and fork/exec to obtain a lower PID, thus avoiding enumeration. An unprivileged attacker can hide a process from procps-ng's utilities by exploiting a race condition in reading /proc/PID entries. This vulnerability affects procps and procps-ng up to version 3.3.15, newer versions might be affected also.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
[UNKNOWN] procps-ng, procps Version: up to procps-ng 3.3.15 and newer
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