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Vuln ID Summary CVSS Severity
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.

Published: January 03, 2018; 11:29:00 PM -0500 		V4.0:(not available)
 V3.0: 4.7 MEDIUM
V2.0: 1.9 LOW
CVE-2016-2781

chroot in GNU coreutils, when used with --userspec, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.

Published: February 07, 2017; 10:59:00 AM -0500 		V4.0:(not available)
 V3.0: 6.5 MEDIUM
V2.0: 2.1 LOW