procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2018-05-23T14:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T03:51:48.790Z
Reserved: 2017-12-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-1122
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2018-05-23T14:29:00.217
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:59:13.633
Link: CVE-2018-1122
 Redhat
                        Redhat