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...

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...