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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-18018: Race Condition

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-18018: Race Condition

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/04/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-coreutils

References

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