Critical
Security advisory
When executing a program via the bubblewrap sandbox, 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 sandbox.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-5226
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
When executing a program via the bubblewrap sandbox, 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 sandbox.
osv:CVE-2017-5226
Complete source record
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