CVE-2023-4016 (GCVE-0-2023-4016)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-02 04:20 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:03
VLAI
Summary
Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the “ps” utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap.
Severity
2.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Kernal Affected: 3.3.0 (might be earlier) - latest
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Credits
Michael Berlin, BGU Prof. Oded Margalit, BGU and Trellix Prof. Gera Weiss, BGU
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