CVE-2017-14179 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Project Apport

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Apport Project ApportCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedFeb 2
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Apport before 2.13 does not properly handle crashes originating from a PID namespace allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion, possibly gain root privileges, or escape from containers.

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

▶Ubuntuapport_project/apport< 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25
▶CVEListV5apport_project/apportbefore 2.13

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.04, 17.10, 18.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6rjw-gqv7-rv3q: Apport before 2↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2017-14179: Apport before 2↗2018-02-02
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OSV
CVE-2017-14179: Apport before 2↗2017-11-15
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