Race Condition Affecting coreutils-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-COREUTILSLIBS-1371420
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Dec 2017

Introduced: 20 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-18018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 coreutils-libs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils-libs package and not the coreutils-libs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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.