cve/2017/CVE-2017-14177.md

### [CVE-2017-14177](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14177)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon