CVE-2016-10124

8.6 highEPSS 1.5%

High (8.6) in linuxcontainers lxc. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Linux Containers (LXC) before 2016-02-22. When executing a program via lxc-attach, the nonpriv session can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the terminal's input buffer, allowing an attacker to escape the container.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.6 high

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

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-284
Published: 2017-01-09
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

linuxcontainers:lxc

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/15/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/03/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95404
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/e986ea3dfa4a2957f71ae9bfaed406dd6e1ffff6
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-09

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