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High severity7.1OSV Advisory· Published Jan 4, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-18018

CVE-2017-18018

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.

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Affected products

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  • Coreutils/CoreutilsOSV
    Range: COREUTILS-4_5_1, COREUTILS-4_5_10, COREUTILS-4_5_11, …
  • GNU/Coreutils2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:gnu:coreutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:coreutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=8.29
    • (no CPE)range: <=8.29

Patches

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