Tracker / CVE-2014-7970
CVE-2014-7970
Medium 5.5
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.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.17 |
| novell | suse_linux_enterprise_server |
Analysis
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