CVE-2024-5742

NameCVE-2024-5742
DescriptionA vulnerability was found in GNU Nano that allows a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If Nano is killed while editing, a file it saves to an emergency file with the permissions of the running user provides a window of opportunity for attackers to escalate privileges through a malicious symlink.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3831-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
nano (PTS)bullseye5.4-2+deb11u3fixed
bookworm7.2-1+deb12u1fixed
trixie, sid8.2-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
nanosourcebuster3.2-3+deb10u1DLA-3831-1
nanosourcebullseye5.4-2+deb11u3
nanosourcebookworm7.2-1+deb12u1
nanosource(unstable)8.0-1

Notes

Introduced by: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/?id=123110c5dc3e0d8c60a4ff0121056e301f503706 (v2.1.99pre2)
Fixed by: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/?id=5e7a3c2e7e118c7f12d5dfda9f9140f638976aa2 (v8.0)

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