procps-ng, procps is vulnerable to a process hiding through race condition. Since the kernel's proc_pid_readdir() returns PID entries in ascending numeric order, a process occupying a high PID can use inotify events to determine when the process list is being scanned, and fork/exec to obtain a lower PID, thus avoiding enumeration. An unprivileged attacker can hide a process from procps-ng's utilities by exploiting a race condition in reading /proc/PID entries. This vulnerability affects procps and procps-ng up to version 3.3.15, newer versions might be affected also.
References
Link Resource
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1121 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt Exploit Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-06-13T20:00:00

Updated: 2020-06-30T15:26:18

Reserved: 2017-12-04T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-1121

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-13T20:29:00.337

Modified: 2020-06-30T16:15:14.393


Link: CVE-2018-1121

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