ubuntu · CVE-2016-2568

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Priority: low Published: 2017-02-13 18:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-11 07:38:16 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2568 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (policykit-1), 24 status rows across 24 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 16, deferred 7, needed 1.

Description:

pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, 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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