CVE-2017-14179

moderate-risk

Published 2018-02-02

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.

Do I need to act?

0.03% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Apport

Ubuntu Linux

Affected Vendors

Canonical Apport Project

References (4)

Issue Tracking https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372

Third Party Advisory https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14179

Issue Tracking https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372

Third Party Advisory https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14179

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 13/34 · Low