CWE Code: 400
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-02-02
Last Modified Date: 2018-02-15
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CWE Code: 400
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-02-02
Last Modified Date: 2018-02-15
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