Local Privilege Escalation via Incomplete Fix in Apport 2.20.7

CVE-2017-14177 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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