CVE-2016-2781 (GCVE-0-2016-2781)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-07 15:00
Modified
2025-06-09 15:59
Severity ?
4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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