CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-14177.md

CVE-2017-14177

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon