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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-18018: coreutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-18018: coreutils security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/04/2018
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/19/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-coreutils

References

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