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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-COREUTILS-673718
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed11 Dec 2009
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Introduced: 11 Dec 2009

CVE-2009-4135  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils package and not the coreutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp.

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