<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201006-08"> <title>nano: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Race conditions when editing files could lead to symlink attacks or changes of ownerships of important files. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">nano</product> <announced>2010-06-01</announced> <revised count="01">2010-06-01</revised> <bug>315355</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="app-editors/nano" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.2.4</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.4</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> nano is a GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality. </p> </background> <description> <p> Multiple race condition vulnerabilities have been discovered in nano. For further information please consult the CVE entries referenced below. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> Under certain conditions, a local, user-assisted attacker could possibly overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an attacker-owned file that is being edited by the victim, or change the ownership of arbitrary files. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All nano users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-editors/nano-2.2.4"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1160">CVE-2010-1160</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1161">CVE-2010-1161</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2010-04-30T14:22:38Z"> chiiph </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2010-05-27T14:24:42Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2010-05-27T17:43:51Z"> vorlon </metadata> </glsa>