CVE-2017-14180

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…

published February 2, 2018

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00440 · 36.9th percentile
Published
2018-02-02T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 FEB 14:00Z
    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…
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