CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14179

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-02-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-02-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400

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.

Affected configurations

• apport project apport (< 2.13) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 17.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 17.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References