PT-2017-8259 · Gnu+1 · Gnu Coreutils+1

Published 2017-02-07 · Updated 2026-02-06 · CVE-2016-2781

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU coreutils (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer, when chroot is used with the --userspec option.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

AZL-34628

AZL-6355

CVE-2016-2781

ECHO-E0C5-F2A2-174A

GHSA-VF3Q-65GX-324P

Affected Products

Debian

Gnu Coreutils

References · 15

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2781 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2781 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2781 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2781 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2781 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-34628 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-6355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2781 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2781 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/3 · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/452 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/2 · Note
• https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/793178 · Note
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E · Note
• https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-ReleaseNotes · Note