CVE-2017-14179

2017-11-1500:00:00

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www.cve.org

7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Apport",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "before 2.13"
      }
    ]
  }
]