CVE-2017-14179 | BDVDB-2026-95968 Detail

Apport

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14179
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12018-02-02Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-09-16Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.