CVE-2017-14180 — na/ / Apport

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
na/ / Apport	affected 2.13 through 2.20.7

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

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