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procps 2:4.0.3-1ubuntu1.23.04.1 source package in Ubuntu

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procps (2:4.0.3-1ubuntu1.23.04.1) lunar-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: heap-based buffer overflow
    - debian/patches/CVE-2023-4016.patch: replace the use of malloc() with calloc()
      in ps/parser.c to prevent the potential for an arithmetic overflow when
      allocating memory.
    - CVE-2023-4016

 -- Ian Constantin <email address hidden>  Mon, 06 Nov 2023 14:12:51 +0200

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Binary packages built by this source

libproc2-0: library for accessing process information from /proc

 The libproc2 library is a way of accessing information out of the /proc
 filesystem.
 .
 This package contains the shared libraries necessary to run programs
 compiled with libproc2.

libproc2-0-dbgsym: debug symbols for libproc2-0
libproc2-dev: library for accessing process information from /proc

 These are the header files for libproc2. Some packages using libproc2
 to access process information from /proc need these to compile.

procps: /proc file system utilities

 This package provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing
 procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by the kernel to
 provide information about the status of entries in its process table
 (such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a "zombie").
 .
 It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop,
 snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch.

procps-dbgsym: debug symbols for procps