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CVE-2017-14177
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
CVSSv3.1 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.2/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 10/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Complete
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Complete
CVSSv3.1 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.8/10
- Exploit Score
- 1.8/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- Low
- Impact Score
- 5.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- High
- Availability Impact
- High
- Integrity Impact
- High
- Scope
- Unchanged
- User Interaction
- None
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:apport_project:apport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |