CVE-2014-7970

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2014-7970
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2014-10-13T10:55:08
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-08-14T18:14:52
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_server:11.0:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3.17
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151095 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg79153.html Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/21 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70319 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030991 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0d0826019e529f21c84687521d03f60cd241ca7d Mailing List Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/61142 Broken Link
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2419-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/60174 Broken Link
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96921 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7970
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7970
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:20:38 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 01:23:35 2014-10-13T10:55Z 2014-10-13T10:55:08 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 01:23:35 2020-08-14T18:14:52 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 01:23:35 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated