CVE-2017-14180 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Project Apport

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption9 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 86.37%
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 2.13 through 2.20.7 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 or possibly gain root privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14179.

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 Packages2 packages

▶Ubuntuapport_project/apport< 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27+2
▶NVDapport_project/apport2.13 — 2.20.7

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-q2pm-6838-p3jm: Apport 2↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2017-14180: Apport 2↗2018-02-02
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OSV
apport regression↗2018-01-03
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OSV
apport regressions↗2017-11-20
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OSV
CVE-2017-14180: Apport 2↗2017-11-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Apport regressions↗2017-11-20
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Ubuntu
Apport vulnerabilities↗2017-11-15
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