PublicDateAtUSN: 2018-05-17 17:00:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2018-1122
CRD: 2018-05-17 17:00:00 UTC
PublicDate: 2018-05-23 14:29:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1122
 https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3658-1
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3658-3
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.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
 mdeslaur> [PATCH 097/117] top: Do not default to the cwd in configs_read().
 leosilva> for precise/esm code request a POC test, and a huge backport.
Bugs: 
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=899170
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.0 HIGH]


Patches_procps:
 upstream: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/commit/b45c4803dd176f4e3f9d3d47421ddec9bbbe66cd
upstream_procps: released (3.3.15)
precise/esm_procps: released (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.6)
trusty_procps: released (1:3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3)
trusty/esm_procps: released (1:3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3)
xenial_procps: released (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.4)
esm-infra/xenial_procps: released (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.4)
artful_procps: released (2:3.3.12-1ubuntu2.1)
bionic_procps: released (2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1)
devel_procps: released (2:3.3.15-2ubuntu1)