Race Condition Affecting coreutils package, versions <8.30-r0
Threat Intelligence
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- published31 May 2025
- disclosed4 Jan 2018
Introduced: 4 Jan 2018
CVE-2017-18018 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.22 coreutils to version 8.30-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils package and not the coreutils package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.22 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.