vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-20197
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
3 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) | Mar 26, 2021 | Jan 20, 2025 | Feb 4, 2025 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 26, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 4, 2025
Description
There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

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