USN-3480-1: Apport vulnerabilities
15 November 2017
Apport could be tricked into creating files as an administrator, resulting in denial of service or privilege escalation.
Releases
Packages
- apport - automatically generate crash reports for debugging
Details
Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled core dumps for setuid
binaries. A local attacker could use this issue to perform a denial of service
via resource exhaustion or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2017-14177)
Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled core dumps for processes
in a different PID namespace. A local attacker could use this issue to perform
a denial of service via resource exhaustion or possibly gain root privileges.
(CVE-2017-14180)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.