CVE-2021-20197
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2021-03-26T16:47:20
State: PUBLISHED
affected: product: binutils
vendor: n/a
versions: status: affected
version: binutils 2.35
descriptions: value: 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.
problemTypes: descriptions: cweId: CWE-59
description: CWE-59
type: CWE