CVE-2016-2781

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2781
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2781.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2781
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Published
2017-02-07T15:59:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:29Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages