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CVE-2017-14177

Date: November 14, 2017

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (7)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14177
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14177
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-14177
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-14177

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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