CVE-2014-7970
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2014-10-13 | |
| Impact: | None | What is this? |
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.
See more information about CVE-2014-7970 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.5 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2018-4301 | 2018-12-09 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2018-4301 | 2018-12-09 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel) | ELSA-2017-1842 | 2017-08-07 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel) | ELSA-2017-1842-1 | 2017-08-15 |
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