cve/2017/CVE-2017-14179.md

### [CVE-2017-14179](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14179)
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![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=Denial%20of%20service%20via%20resource%20exhaustion%2C%20privilege%20escalation%2C%20and%20escape%20from%20containers&color=brighgreen)

### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14179

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