OESA-2023-1514

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    OESA-2023-1514

    Published: 18 Aug 2023Last Modified: 18 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-4016

    Summary: procps-ng security update

    Details: The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, pidof, pmap, slabtop, w, watch and pwdx. Security Fix(es): 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.(CVE-2023-4016)

    References: https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2023-1514, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4016

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: procps-ng

    Purl: pkg:rpm/openEuler/procps-ng&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP1

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.3.16-19.oe1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    OESA-2023-1514 | CVE-DB