Privilege Context Switching Error Affecting coreutils-libs package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-COREUTILSLIBS-1961573
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 28 Feb 2016
Introduced: 28 Feb 2016
CVE-2016-2781 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6
coreutils-libs
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils-libs
package and not the coreutils-libs
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:6
relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2781
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/3
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E