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ghsa-7p5j-7j45-6mrj

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:23

Modified

2022-05-13 01:23

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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cve-2014-7970

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2014-10-13 10:00

Modified

2024-08-06 13:03

Severity ?

Summary

References

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	http://secunia.com/advisories/60174	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/21	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg79153.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96921	vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://secunia.com/advisories/61142	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030991	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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