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.
problem types: CWE-59
affected:
{
product: binutils
vendor: n/a
versions:
status: affected, version: binutils 2.35
}