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    CVE-2023-4016

    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.

    Published:Aug 2, 2023
    Last Modified:Feb 13, 2025
    EPS:Aug 2, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.00013
    CVSS Score:2.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Procps Project
    Product
    Procps
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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