CVE-2017-14179

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.

Date published : 2018-02-02

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14179