cve/2017/CVE-2017-14179.md

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.

POC

Reference

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

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon