DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18018

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18018
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18018.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18018
Upstream
Published
2018-01-04T04:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:11:30.332345Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

8.*

8.32-4
8.32-4.1

9.*

9.1-1
9.4-1
9.4-2
9.4-3
9.4-3.1
9.5-1
9.6-1
9.6-2
9.7-1
9.7-2
9.7-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

9.*

9.1-1
9.4-1
9.4-2
9.4-3
9.4-3.1
9.5-1
9.6-1
9.6-2
9.7-1
9.7-2
9.7-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

9.*

9.7-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:14 / coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

9.*

9.7-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}