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CVE-2014-7970

Public on 2014-10-13
Modified on 2014-12-18
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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
1.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2014-12-03 22:27 ALAS-2014-455

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.0 AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H