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.
References
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-01-04T04:00:00
Updated: 2018-01-04T03:57:01
Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-18018
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-01-04T04:29:00.190
Modified: 2018-01-19T15:46:46.050
Link: CVE-2017-18018
JSON object: View
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