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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-01-04T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:06:50.164Z

Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-18018

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-18018

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-12-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-18018 - Bugzilla