Bug 155758

Summary:	CAN-2005-1039 Race condition in coreutils
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-04-22 19:58:36 UTC

Race condition in Core Utilities (coreutils) 5.2.1, when (1) mkdir, (2) mknod,
or (3) mkfifo is running with the -m switch, allows local users to modify
permissions of other files.

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395489

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-22 20:00:33 UTC

This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3