Escape from chroot via crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call in GNU coreutils

CVE-2016-2781 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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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