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CVE-2014-7970

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…

Impact

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

VendorProductAffected versions
NovellSuse Linux Enterprise Server
Version 11.0
LinuxLinux Kernel
through 3.17
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 12.04, 14.04

Weakness classification

CWE-400

References