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CVE-2017-14179
published 2018-02-02

CVE-2017-14179: 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…

PriorityP337high7.8CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.36%
28.1th percentile
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.

Affected

10 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
apport_projectapport< 2.132.13
apport_projectapport>= 0 < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.272.14.1-0ubuntu3.27
apport_projectapport>= 0 < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.252.14.1-0ubuntu3.25
apport_projectapport>= 0 < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.122.20.1-0ubuntu2.12
apport_projectapport2.13 – 2.20.7
canonicalubuntu_linux
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CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
osv7.8HIGH
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