CVE-2021-20197
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-26 16:47
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
Summary
There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913743Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210528-0009/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26945Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913743Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210528-0009/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26945Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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n/a binutils Version: binutils 2.35
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