CVE-2017-14180

Publication date 15 November 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
apport	17.10 artful	Fixed 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.4
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.7
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.12
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
apport	Upstream: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3480-1
Apport vulnerabilities
15 November 2017