cve/2017/CVE-2017-14180.md

CVE-2017-14180

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
• https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1

Github

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