CVE-2014-7970

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.

Weakness classification

• CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
• cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory