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Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-uek-debug package, versions <0:2.6.39-400.304.1.el5uek

Severity

high

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE5-KERNELUEKDEBUG-2531619
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 13 Oct 2014
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Introduced: 13 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-7970 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:5 kernel-uek-debug to version 0:2.6.39-400.304.1.el5uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-4301.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-debug package and not the kernel-uek-debug package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

5.5 medium
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Red Hat

2.5 low