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CVE-2014-7970

CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (11th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 31
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2014-10-13 10:55:08
(10 years ago)
Updated Date
2020-08-14 18:14:52
(4 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Linux

Novell

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 SP3 cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_server:11.0:sp3

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 3.17 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 3.17

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm