Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002200)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002200 advisory. The pivotroot 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...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-7970

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which...

SUSE CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot 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 pivotroot system call...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel-rt is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists as the pivotroot 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...

Kernel: fs: VFS denial of service

The pivotroot 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 pivotroot system call...

Kernel: fs: VFS denial of service

The pivotroot 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 pivotroot system call...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-455)

The sctpprocessparam function in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 The pivotroot...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2014:230)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel : The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause...

USN-2419-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2419-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.10.58 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to 1...

Code injection

The pivotroot 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 pivotroot system call...

CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot 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 pivotroot system call...

PT-2014-8348

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.18 Description The issue is related to the pivot root implementation in the Linux kernel, which does not properly handle certain locations of a chroot directory. This allows local users to cause a denial of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot 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 pivotroot system call...

CVE-2014-7970: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The pivotroot 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 pivotroot system call...