Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | nano symlink attack |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-004 | First vendor Publication | 2000-12-17 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2000-12-17 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | Not Defined | Attack Range | Not Defined |
| Cvss Impact Score | Not Defined | Attack Complexity | Not Defined |
| Cvss Expoit Score | Not Defined | Authentication | Not Defined |
| Calculate full CVSS 2.0 Vectors scores | |||
Detail
| The problem that was previously reported for joe also occurs with other editors. When nano (a free pico clone) unexpectedly dies it tries a warning message to a new file with a predictable name (the name of the file being edited with ".save" appended). Unfortunately that file was not created safely which made nano vulnerable to a symlink attack. This has been fixed in version 0.9.23-1 (except for powerpc, which has version 0.9.23-1.1). wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2000/dsa-004 |
