CVE-2017-18018
04.01.2018, 04:29
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.
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| gnu | coreutils | 𝑥 ≤ 8.29 |
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= Vulnerable software versions
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