Race Condition Affecting coreutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-COREUTILS-1543947
- published 4 Jan 2018
- disclosed 4 Jan 2018
Introduced: 4 Jan 2018
CVE-2017-18018 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:12
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:12
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.