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CVE-2021-20197 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.

2026-02-18 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

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“cve - 2021 - 20197 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 differen…”

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