CVE-2014-7970

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.

Affected Software

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n/an/an/aaffected

Weaknesses

  • n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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