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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2018-02-02T14:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:42:06.537Z

Reserved: 2017-09-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-14179

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-02-02T14:29:00.403

Modified: 2018-02-15T13:21:00.257

Link: CVE-2017-14179

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