Security Advisory

CVE-2010-1160

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-04-16 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 01:14:06
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

GNU nano before 2.2.4 does not verify whether a file has been changed before it is overwritten in a file-save operation, which allows local user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an attacker-owned file that is being edited by the victim.