CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2779

Published: Feb 07, 2017 | Modified: Jan 04, 2019

CVSS 3.x

7.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2779
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Util-linux	Kernel	2.24.2-1	2.24.2-1

References

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