CVE-2014-7970
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 user…
Published: 2014-10-13 · CVSS: Unscored
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7