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The is_same_ns() function returns True when /proc/<global pid>/ does not exist in order to indicate that the crash should be handled in the global namespace rather than inside of a container. However, the portion of the data/apport code that decides whether or not to forward a crash to a container does not always replace sys.argv[1] with the value stored in the host_pid variable when /proc/<global pid>/ does not exist which results in the container pid being used in the global namespace. This flaw affects versions 2.20.8-0ubuntu4 through 2.20.9-0ubuntu7, 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7, 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15 through 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.17, and 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.28."}], "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"description": "Denial of service via resource exhaustion, privilege escalation, and escape from containers", "lang": "en", "type": "text"}]}], "providerMetadata": {"dateUpdated": "2018-06-08T18:57:01", "orgId": "cc1ad9ee-3454-478d-9317-d3e869d708bc", "shortName": "canonical"}, "references": [{"name": "USN-3664-1", "tags": ["vendor-advisory", "x_refsource_UBUNTU"], "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3664-1"}, {"name": "USN-3664-2", "tags": ["vendor-advisory", "x_refsource_UBUNTU"], "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3664-2/"}], "source": {"advisory": "USN-3664-1", "defect": ["1746668"], "discovery": "EXTERNAL"}, "title": "Apport treats the container PID as the global PID when /proc/<global_pid>/ is missing", "x_legacyV4Record": {"CVE_data_meta": {"ASSIGNER": "security@ubuntu.com", "DATE_PUBLIC": "2018-05-30T18:00:00.000Z", "ID": "CVE-2018-6552", "STATE": "PUBLIC", "TITLE": "Apport treats the container PID as the global PID when /proc/<global_pid>/ is missing"}, "affects": {"vendor": {"vendor_data": [{"product": {"product_data": [{"product_name": "Apport", "version": {"version_data": [{"affected": ">=", "platform": "Ubuntu 18.04", "version_affected": ">=", "version_value": "2.20.8-0ubuntu4"}, {"affected": "<", "platform": "Ubuntu 18.04", "version_affected": "<", "version_value": "2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1"}, {"affected": ">=", "platform": "Ubuntu 16.04", "version_affected": ">=", "version_value": "2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15"}, {"affected": "<", "platform": "Ubuntu 16.04", "version_affected": "<", "version_value": "2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18"}, {"affected": ">=", "platform": "Ubuntu 17.10", "version_affected": ">=", "version_value": "2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7"}, {"affected": "<", "platform": "Ubuntu 17.10", "version_affected": "<", "version_value": "2.20.7-0ubuntu3.9"}, {"affected": "=", "platform": "Ubuntu 14.04", "version_affected": "=", "version_value": "2.14.1-0ubuntu3.28"}]}}]}, "vendor_name": "n/a"}]}}, "credit": [{"lang": "eng", "value": "Sander Bos"}], "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": {"description_data": [{"lang": "eng", "value": "Apport 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. The is_same_ns() function returns True when /proc/<global pid>/ does not exist in order to indicate that the crash should be handled in the global namespace rather than inside of a container. However, the portion of the data/apport code that decides whether or not to forward a crash to a container does not always replace sys.argv[1] with the value stored in the host_pid variable when /proc/<global pid>/ does not exist which results in the container pid being used in the global namespace. This flaw affects versions 2.20.8-0ubuntu4 through 2.20.9-0ubuntu7, 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7, 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15 through 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.17, and 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.28."}]}, "problemtype": {"problemtype_data": [{"description": [{"lang": "eng", "value": "Denial of service via resource exhaustion, privilege escalation, and escape from containers"}]}]}, "references": {"reference_data": [{"name": "USN-3664-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3664-1"}, {"name": "USN-3664-2", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3664-2/"}]}, "source": {"advisory": "USN-3664-1", "defect": ["1746668"], "discovery": "EXTERNAL"}}}, "adp": [{"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "shortName": "CVE", "dateUpdated": "2024-08-05T06:10:10.228Z"}, "title": "CVE Program Container", "references": [{"name": "USN-3664-1", "tags": ["vendor-advisory", "x_refsource_UBUNTU", "x_transferred"], "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3664-1"}, {"name": "USN-3664-2", "tags": ["vendor-advisory", "x_refsource_UBUNTU", "x_transferred"], "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3664-2/"}]}]}, "cveMetadata": {"assignerOrgId": "cc1ad9ee-3454-478d-9317-d3e869d708bc", "assignerShortName": "canonical", "cveId": "CVE-2018-6552", "datePublished": "2018-05-31T22:00:00Z", "dateReserved": "2018-02-02T00:00:00", "dateUpdated": "2024-09-17T03:07:21.752Z", "state": "PUBLISHED"}, "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.1"}