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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T13:03:27.700Z
Reserved: 2014-10-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-7970

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2014-10-13T10:55:08.497
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2014-7970
