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)  
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