CVE-2018-15687 (NVD)

2018-10-26

A race condition in chown_one() of systemd allows an attacker to cause systemd to set arbitrary permissions on arbitrary files. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.

Products Ubuntu_linux, Systemd
Type Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') (CWE-362)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Patches https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10517/commits
Links http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105748
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45715/