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CVE-2018-1125 procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep

Description

procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep. This vulnerability is mitigated by FORTIFY, as it involves strncat() to a stack-allocated string. When pgrep is compiled with FORTIFY (as on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora), the impact is limited to a crash.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
procps-ng, procps Versions not published
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