CVE-2017-18018

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
Link Resource
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:coreutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2018-01-04 04:29

Updated : 2023-12-10 12:15


NVD link : CVE-2017-18018

Mitre link : CVE-2017-18018

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-18018


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Products Affected

gnu

  • coreutils
CWE
CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')