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CVE-2017-14177

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.052

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3354-1) python-apport_2.20.4-0ubuntu4.10_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3354-1) python3-apport_2.20.4-0ubuntu4.10_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3480-1) apport_2.20.4-0ubuntu4.7_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3480-1) apport_2.20.7-0ubuntu3.4_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3480-1) apport_2.20.1-0ubuntu2.12_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3480-2) apport_2.20.4-0ubuntu4.10_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3480-3) apport_2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3480-3) apport_2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3480-3) apport_2.20.4-0ubuntu4.10_all.debLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234