vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-14180): Apport vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 15, 2017
Added
Nov 16, 2017
Modified
Nov 8, 2024

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-apport
Title
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