UBUNTU-CVE-2026-35340

A flaw in the ChownExecutor used by uutils coreutils chown and chgrp causes the utilities to return an incorrect exit code during recursive operations. The final exit code is determined only by the last file processed. If the last operation succeeds, the command returns 0 even if earlier ownershi...

PT-2026-34476

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions uutils coreutils affected versions not specified Description A flaw in the ChownExecutor used by chown and chgrp causes these utilities to return an incorrect exit code during recursive operations. The final exit code is determined only by the...

CVE-2017-18018

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...