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.
problem types: Denial of service via resource exhaustion and privilege escalation
affected:
{
product: Apport
vendor: na/
versions:
status: affected, version: 2.13 through 2.20.7
}