CVE-2017-14180 (GCVE-0-2017-14180)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-02 14:00
Modified
2024-09-16 20:41
Severity ?
CWE
  • Denial of service via resource exhaustion and privilege escalation
Summary
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.
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na/ Apport Version: 2.13 through 2.20.7
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