CVE-2023-6597

An issue was found in the CPython tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior. The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged...

systemd: chown_one() can dereference symlinks

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systemd - 'chown_one()' Dereference Symlinks

I am sending this bug report to Ubuntu, even though it's an upstream bug, as requested at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.mdsecurity-vulnerability-reports . When chownone in the recursive chown logic decides that it has to change ownership of a directory entry, it...