Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package coreutils-common (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-COREUTILSCOMMON-1936958
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed20 Dec 2017
Introduced: 20 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-18018 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils-common package and not the coreutils-common package as distributed by Centos.
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.