CVE-2023-4016: Fedoraproject Fedora

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 38 only
• Procps Project Procps: from 3.3.0, up to and including 4.0.3

Published 2023-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.