cvelist/2017/14xxx/CVE-2017-14177.json

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        "ASSIGNER": "security@ubuntu.com",
        "DATE_PUBLIC": "2017-11-15T19:00:00.000Z",
        "ID": "CVE-2017-14177",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
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    "credit": [
        "Sander Bos"
    ],
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            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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."
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                        "value": "Denial of service via resource exhaustion and privilege escalation"
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            {
                "name": "https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171",
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                "name": "https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372",
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