CVE-2017-14180 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8