CVE-2017-14179

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    CVE-2017-14179

    Published: 2 Feb 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14179, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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