CVE-2024-45593

Name	CVE-2024-45593
Description	Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A bug in Nix 2.24 prior to 2.24.6 allows a substituter or malicious user to craft a NAR that, when unpacked by Nix, causes Nix to write to arbitrary file system locations to which the Nix process has access. This will be with root permissions when using the Nix daemon. This issue is fixed in Nix 2.24.6.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
nix (PTS)	bullseye	2.3.7+dfsg1-1	fixed
	bookworm	2.8.0-1.1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.23.3+dfsg-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
nix	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

- nix <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-h4vv-h3jq-v493
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/eb11c1499876cd4c9c188cbda5b1003b36ce2e59