Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:201714179000
Revision Date:2018-02-02Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-14179 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - high.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-14179
Platform(s):Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'apport' package in trusty is not affected (note: '2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25').
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