CVE-2017-14177 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Project Apport
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 83.82%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 2
Latest updateMay 14
Description
Apport through 2.20.7 does not properly handle core dumps from setuid binaries allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion or possibly gain root privileges. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1324.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.04, 17.10, 18.04