CVE-2017-14180 | BDVDB-2026-95969 Detail

na/Apport

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12018-02-02Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22025-11-03Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.