A security issue has been found in Linux <= 4.16.9, where an unprivileged attacker can hide a process from procps-ng's utilities by exploiting either a denial of service (a rather noisy method) or a race condition inherent in reading /proc/PID entries (a stealthier method).
A security issue has been found in Linux <= 4.16.9, where an unprivileged attacker can hide a process from procps-ng's utilities by exploiting either a denial of service (a rather noisy method) or a race condition inherent in reading /proc/PID entries (a stealthier method).
https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt