GSD-2017-14177

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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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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CVE-2017-14177
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