This can disclose information from the stack, but is unlikely to have a
security impact in the context of the procps utilities:
user@debian:~$ w 2>&1 | xxd
00000000: a03c 79b7 1420 6661 696c 6564 2074 6f20 .<y.. failed to
00000010: 616c 6c6f 6361 7465 2033 3232 3137 3439 allocate 3221749
00000020: 3738 3020 6279 7465 7320 6f66 206d 656d 780 bytes of mem
00000030: 6f72 79 ory
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