Microsoft security update for CVE-2016-2568
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 polkit 123-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 polkit 123-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 polkit 0.119-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 polkit 0.116-7 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 updates
3 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 123-1 |
| — | Security Update | 0.116-7 |
| — | Security Update | 0.119-3 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2016-2568
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2016-2568, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).