Title: schroot '/tmp/shm' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
The 'schroot' tool allows commands or a shell to run in a chroot environment.
The application is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability. Specifically, this issue occurs because schroot creates a new 'tmpfs' filesystem for every chroot and acts as '/dev/shm'.
Attackers can exploit this issue to exhaust all available memory and crash the system, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
This issue affects schroot 1.2.2; other versions may also be affected.
Affected Products:
- schroot schroot 1.2.2
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