CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14180
7.8 HIGH
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- 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 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.
Affected configurations
• apport project apport (>= 2.13 <= 2.20.7)
• 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
- https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9 seclists.org
- https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1 Third Party Advisory