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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cve-icon 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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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-01-04T04:29:00.190

Modified: 2018-01-19T15:46:46.050


Link: CVE-2017-18018

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