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CVE-2016-2781

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Date: February 7, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (5)

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2781

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2781

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/2

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-2781

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

No fix version available

CVSS v3

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	CHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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