Revision Date: | 2014-10-13 | Version: | 1 | Title: | CVE-2014-7970 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium. | 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. Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in how the Linux kernel handles pivot_root when used with a chroot directory. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (mount-tree loop).
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2014-7970
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
| Product(s): | | Definition Synopsis | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed. AND Package Information
The 'linux' package in trusty was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '3.13.0-40.69').
OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-aws' package in trusty is not affected (note: '4.4.0-1002.2').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR The 'linux-lts-utopic' package in trusty was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '3.16.0-26.35~14.04.1').
OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-lts-vivid' package in trusty is not affected (note: '3.19.0-18.18~14.04.1').
OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-lts-wily' package in trusty is not affected (note: '4.2.0-18.22~14.04.1').
OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-lts-xenial' package in trusty is not affected (note: '4.4.0-13.29~14.04.1').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
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