Candidate: CVE-2010-1161
PublicDate: 2010-04-16 19:30:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1161
 http://drosenbe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nano-as-root.html
 http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/ChangeLog?revision=4503&root=nano&view=markup
Description:
 Race condition in GNU nano before 2.2.4, when run by root to edit a file
 that is not owned by root, allows local user-assisted attackers to change
 the ownership of arbitrary files via vectors related to the creation of
 backup files.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/+bug/564734
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/+bug/535400
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577817
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Dan Rosenberg
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_nano:
upstream_nano: released (2.2.4)
dapper_nano: ignored (reached end-of-life)
hardy_nano: ignored (reached end-of-life)
intrepid_nano: needed (reached end-of-life)
jaunty_nano: ignored (reached end-of-life)
karmic_nano: ignored (reached end-of-life)
lucid_nano: ignored (reached end-of-life)
maverick_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
natty_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
oneiric_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
precise_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
quantal_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
raring_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
saucy_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
trusty_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
trusty/esm_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
utopic_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
vivid_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)
devel_nano: not-affected (2.2.4-1)