CVE-2016-2779

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2779
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2779.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2779
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-02-07T15:59:00.287Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:06:11.099435Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

runuser in util-linux allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.24.2-1"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2779.json"