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2018-01-04
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.
Products | Coreutils |
Type | Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') (CWE-362) |
First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
Links | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html |