{"id":"CVE-2017-14177","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-15T14:26:10.182560Z","published":"2018-02-02T14:29:00.263Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14177"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14177.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.20.7"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"14.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"16.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"17.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"17.10"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"18.04"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}