CVE-2014-7970
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 13, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 8, 2014
Description
The pivot_root implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (mount-tree loop) via . (dot) values in both arguments to the pivot_root system call.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- SUSE-SU-2015:0736vendor-advisory
- 70319vdb-entry
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0d0826019e529f21c84687521d03f60cd241ca7d
- USN-2419-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2514-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151095
- 60174third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20141008 CVE-2014-7970: Linux VFS denial of servicemailing-list
- USN-2420-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:2077vendor-advisory
- [linux-fsdevel] 20141008 [PATCH] mnt: Prevent pivot_root from creating a loop in the mount treemailing-list
- RHSA-2017:1842vendor-advisory
- linux-kernel-cve20147970-dos(96921)vdb-entry
- USN-2513-1vendor-advisory
- 61142third-party-advisory
- 1030991vdb-entry
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