Resource Exhaustion Affecting apport package, versions <2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-APPORT-369342
- published2 Feb 2018
- disclosed2 Feb 2018
Introduced: 2 Feb 2018
CVE-2017-14177 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 apport to version 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apport package and not the apport package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
Apport through 2.20.7 does not properly handle core dumps from setuid binaries 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1324.