Resource Exhaustion Affecting apport package, versions <2.20.4-0ubuntu4.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-APPORT-369340
  • published2 Feb 2018
  • disclosed2 Feb 2018

Introduced: 2 Feb 2018

CVE-2017-14180  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:17.04 apport to version 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.7 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:17.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.