coreutils: race condition vulnerability in chown and chgrp
Published Jan 4, 2018
7.1
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.34%
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.
Affected products
No data.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
coreutils
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
coreutils
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
coreutils
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
coreutils
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
coreutils
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | coreutils | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | coreutils | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | coreutils | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | coreutils | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | coreutils | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
For this vulnerability the fix was an update to the documentation. For more details please visit: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/01/04/3 http://michael.orlitzky.com/cves/cve-2017-18018.xhtml Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ships already updated version of the coreutils package (version 8.30).
References (6)
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18018 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532284 Issue Tracking
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-9158 Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18018
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18018
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html | x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18018 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532284 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-9158 | Advisory | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18018 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18018 |
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