ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2017-14180

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.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
Published
Modified

Linked Releases

References

  1. https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
  2. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
  3. https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180
  4. https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1
  5. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9
  6. https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
  7. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
  8. https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180
  9. https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1