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

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

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/16/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-apport

References

  • USN-3480-1
  • USN-3480-2
  • USN-3480-3
  • CVE-2017-14180

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