Security Advisory ID : BSA-2022-2073
Component : GNU Coreutils
Revision : 1.0
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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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