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CVE-2021-20197
medium
Description
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
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26945
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210528-0009/