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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

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

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:41:50.800Z

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

Link: CVE-2017-14180

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-02-02T14:29:00.467

Modified: 2018-02-15T13:21:09.677

Link: CVE-2017-14180

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