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CVE-2014-7970 Moderate

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 users to cause a denial of service (mount-tree loop) via . (dot) values in both arguments to the pivot_root system call.

Exploit probability 0.7%
Published October 13, 2014
Required by Not available
Last source change April 16, 2026

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities 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 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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