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RHEL 9 : nano (RHSA-2024:9430)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210805

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for nano.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9430 advisory.

 GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

 Security Fix(es):

 * 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)

 For 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL nano package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9430.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278574

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9430

http://www.nessus.org/u?bb08292d

http://www.nessus.org/u?e9c80031

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210805

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9430.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2024

Updated: 11/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5742

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nano

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5742

CWE: 59

RHSA: 2024:9430