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CVE-2023-4016

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-02 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 38
• [UNKNOWN] procps-ng, procps: from 3.3.0 through 4.0.3

References

• https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SUETRRT24OFGPYK6ACPM5VUGHNKH5CQ5/
• https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SUETRRT24OFGPYK6ACPM5VUGHNKH5CQ5/
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

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