All errata/sisyphus/ALT-PU-2018-2970-1
ALT-PU-2018-2970-1

Package update coreutils in branch sisyphus

Version8.30.0.31.69df9-alt1
Published2018-12-27
Max severityHIGH
Severity:

Closed issues (1)

CVE-2017-18018
HIGH7.1

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.

Published: 2018-01-04Modified: 2025-06-09
CVSS 2.0LOW 1.9
CVSS:2.0/AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS 3.xMEDIUM 4.7
CVSS:3.x/CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N