CVE-2023-4016

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4016
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4016.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-4016
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
CLSA (9)
DEBIAN (1)
ECHO (1)
OESA (1)
openSUSE (2)
RHSA (2)
RLSA (1)
SUSE (5)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2023-08-02T04:20:20Z
Modified
2026-10-16T02:53:53Z
Severity
  • 2.5 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "trellix",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-122"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/4xxx/CVE-2023-4016.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.3.0 (might be earlier) - latest"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.3.0 (might be earlier) - latest"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StandaloneSingleVersion"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:procps_project:procps:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.3.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "4.0.3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.3.0 (might be earlier) - latest
v3.*
v3.3.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4016.json"