{"id":"RLSA-2024:6986","summary":"Low: nano security update","details":"GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* nano: running `chmod` and `chown` on the filename allows malicious user to replace the emergency file with a malicious symlink to a root-owned file (CVE-2024-5742)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.","modified":"2026-03-11T06:30:00.480501Z","published":"2024-09-30T14:30:24.512095Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-5742"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:6986"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nano","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/nano?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:2.9.8-3.el8_10"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2024:6986.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}