Upstream information

CVE-2017-14179 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1068702 [RESOLVED / INVALID], 1068704 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS apport Not affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Nov 15 22:04:27 2017
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 2 17:37:04 2024