Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package coreutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-COREUTILS-627414
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed20 Sept 2017

Introduced: 20 Sep 2017

CVE-2015-1865  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

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

fts.c in coreutils 8.4 allows local users to delete arbitrary files.