CVE-2017-14179
02.02.2018, 14:29
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.Enginsight
Vendor | Product | Version |
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apport_project | apport | 𝑥 < 2.13 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 17.04 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 17.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 |
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= Vulnerable software versions

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