CWE Code: 400
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-02-02
Last Modified Date: 2018-02-15