### [CVE-2017-14180](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14180)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon