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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 2, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-14179

CVE-2017-14179

Description

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.

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Affected products

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  • Apport Project/Apport2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:apport_project:apport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:apport_project:apport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.13
    • (no CPE)range: <2.13
  • Canonical/Ubuntu Linux5 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 4 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

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