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SCP6-499 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2014-7970

Created: Oct 30, 2014    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Dec 21, 2014
Previous ID: LIN4-31900
Found In Version: 6.0.0.6.SP18
Fix Version: 6.0.0.16
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Kernel

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-7970

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