CVE-2017-14179 (GCVE-0-2017-14179)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-02 14:00
Modified
2024-09-16 20:42
Severity ?
CWE
  • Denial of service via resource exhaustion, privilege escalation, and escape from containers
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Apport Version: before 2.13
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