CVE-2017-14180

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 2, 2018
Updated
Nov 3, 2025
Reserved
Sep 7, 2017

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apportna/
  • 2.13 through 2.20.7Affected

References

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