CVE-2017-18018

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-18018
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-04 04:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-01-19 15:46:00 UTC
DescriptionIn GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Coreutils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
chown: race condition with --recursive -L MISC lists.gnu.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500104 Alpine Linux Security Update for coreutils
  • 503762 Alpine Linux Security Update for coreutils
  • 671096 EulerOS Security Update for coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2134)
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