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Race Condition Affecting coreutils package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-COREUTILS-527269
  • published 4 Jan 2018
  • disclosed 4 Jan 2018
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Introduced: 4 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-18018 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-362 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:11 coreutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils package and not the coreutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 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.