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DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18018

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18018 PUBLISHED CVSS 4.699999809265137 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0
4.699999809265137
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11coreutils9.7-1, 0, 8.32-4
Debian:14coreutils9.7-3, 9.10-1, 0
Debian:12coreutils9.4-3.1, 9.10-1, 9.4-2
Debian:13coreutils9.7-3, 9.10-1, 0

Timeline

  • Jan 4, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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