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CVE-2016-2781

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CVE-2016-2781

Published: Feb 7, 2017

Modified: Jun 9, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

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