CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2781
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 4.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
chroot in GNU coreutils, when used with --userspec, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.
Affected configurations
• gnu coreutils
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org