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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
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Updated: 2024-08-05T21:06:50.164Z
Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-18018

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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-01-04T04:29:00.190
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:19:10.713
Link: CVE-2017-18018
