High severity8.4NVD Advisory· Published Mar 28, 2026· Updated May 1, 2026
CVE-2016-20042
CVE-2016-20042
Description
TRN 3.6-23 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the application. Attackers can craft a malicious command-line argument with 156 bytes of padding followed by a return address to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.
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