{"id":"CVE-2017-14179","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-14T01:38:45.757696Z","published":"2018-02-02T14:29:00.403Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14179"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.13"}]},{"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"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14179.json"}}],"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"}]}