155758 – CAN-2005-1039 Race condition in coreutils

Bug 155758 - CAN-2005-1039 Race condition in coreutils

Summary: CAN-2005-1039 Race condition in coreutils

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Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	coreutils
Sub Component:
Version:	4.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	low
Severity:	low
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Tim Waugh
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TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2005-04-22 19:58 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified:	2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2005-05-31 11:17:54 UTC
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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

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