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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2014-7970
HistoryOct 13, 2014 - 10:55 a.m.

Code injection

2014-10-1310:55:00
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10

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.1%

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.