Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
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| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
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