Duplicate Advisory: uutils coreutils has a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-w6xc-g9qj-vp32. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description The safe_traversal module in uutils coreutils, which provides protection against Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) symlink races using file-descriptor-relative syscalls, is incorrectly limited to Linux targets. On other Unix-like systems such as macOS and FreeBSD, the utility fails to utilize these protections, leaving directory traversal operations vulnerable to symlink race conditions.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-35362US | — | — | ||
The safe_traversal module in uutils coreutils, which provides protection against Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) symlink races using file-descriptor-relative syscalls, is inc… | ||||
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