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2 vulnerabilities found for Apport by na/
CVE-2017-14180 (GCVE-0-2017-14180)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-02 14:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:25
VLAI?
Summary
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 ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- Denial of service via resource exhaustion and privilege escalation
Assigner
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Credits
Sander Bos
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CVE-2017-14180 (GCVE-0-2017-14180)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2018-02-02 14:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:25
VLAI?
Summary
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 ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- Denial of service via resource exhaustion and privilege escalation
Assigner
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