CVE
- Id
- 75271
- CVE No.
- CVE-2014-7970
- Status
- Candidate
- 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.
- Phase
- Assigned (20141008)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments