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CVE-2017-14179 Apport before 2.13 does not properly handle crashes originating from a PID namespace allowing local users to create…

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.

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