Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201714180000
Revision Date:2018-02-02Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-14180 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - high.
Description:Apport 2.13 through 2.20.7 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 or possibly gain root privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14179.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-14180
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'apport' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '2.20.1-0ubuntu2.12').
  • BACK