CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2017-14179
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.36%
Original NVD Description
Apport before 2.13 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, possibly gain root privileges, or escape from containers.
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