CVE-2017-14179

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 2, 2018
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Sep 7, 2017

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apportn/a
  • before 2.13Affected

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