Race Condition Affecting coreutils package, versions *


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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NVD
4.7 medium
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Red Hat
4.2 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-COREUTILS-317493
  • published 4 Jan 2018
  • disclosed 4 Jan 2018

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 coreutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils package and not the coreutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.