CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-7970
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-10-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
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 configurations
• novell suse linux enterprise server 11.0
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.17)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60174 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61142 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/21 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70319 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030991 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg79153.html Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2419-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151095 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96921 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0d0826019e529f21c84687521d03f60cd241ca7d Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60174 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61142 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/21 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70319 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030991 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg79153.html Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2419-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151095 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96921 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0d0826019e529f21c84687521d03f60cd241ca7d Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory