VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-7970

medium
Published 2014-10-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.16.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.16.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.16.7-1
debian debiansidfixed3.16.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.16.7-1
suse suse11.0affected
linux linux-kernelaffected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected

References

CWEs

CWE-400

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.