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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-10-13T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:03:27.700Z

Reserved: 2014-10-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-7970

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2014-10-13T10:55:08.497

Modified: 2020-08-14T18:14:52.910

Link: CVE-2014-7970

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2014-10-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-7970 - Bugzilla