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Commit c344c58b authored by Salvatore Bonaccorso's avatar Salvatore Bonaccorso
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Add CVE-2017-18018/coreutils

This item should probably be marked as unimportant.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00071.html

> On 12/28/2017 04:36 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
>     Does anyone mind if I reserve a CVE for this?
>
>
> Of course not - but I doubt that we can do much about it:
> the chown(1) binary is just a wrapper around chown(2)/lchown(2),
> so whatever (other) utility uses these system calls in a recursive
> way will be prone to that trap.
>
> I think the best way to handle this is to keep teaching sysadmins
> to avoid the --dereference option together with -R; usually
> "chown -R" with the default -P is probably good enough.
>
> It would probably be good to add a clarifying sentence to the Texinfo
> documentation.  Would you like to propose a sentence?

Will just be fixed by clarifying documentation about security risk.
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