ALT-PU-2018-2970-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2018-01-04
Modified: 2024-11-21
Modified: 2024-11-21
CVE-2017-18018
In 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.
Severity: MEDIUM (4.7)
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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