cve-2014-7970
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-10-13 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:03
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/60174Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/61142Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/21Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70319Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030991Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg79153.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2419-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151095Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96921Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0d0826019e529f21c84687521d03f60cd241ca7dMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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