Bug 2228494 (CVE-2023-4016)

Summary: CVE-2023-4016 procps: ps buffer overflow
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
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Bug Depends On: 2228503, 2228504, 2229182, 2229183, 2230186    
Bug Blocks: 2228501    

Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-08-02 13:24:06 UTC 
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.

https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps
Comment 2 Jan Rybar 2023-08-02 16:08:05 UTC 
So far nobody knows nothing, not even the upstream and the reporter hasn't sent any analysis yet, so there is no information on where the issue is and how it can be fixed.  
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/297#note_1496932093
Comment 5 msiddiqu 2023-08-08 20:25:30 UTC 
Created procps-ng tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2230186]