CVE-2017-14180

Publication date

2018-02-02 14:00:00

Family

canonical

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.