CVE-2017-14177

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 2, 2018
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Sep 7, 2017

Description

Apport through 2.20.7 does not properly handle core dumps from setuid binaries 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1324.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apportn/a	through 2.20.7Affected

References

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14177
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
USN-3480-1vendor-advisory
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372

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