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.
References
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
Information
Published : 2018-01-03 20:29
Updated : 2018-01-19 07:46
NVD link : CVE-2017-18018
Mitre link : CVE-2017-18018
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CWE
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Products Affected
gnu
- coreutils