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RockyLinux 9 : nano (RLSA-2024:9430)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 232937

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2024:9430 advisory.

 * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 affected nano, nano-debuginfo and / or nano-debugsource packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:9430

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 232937

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-9430.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 3/19/2025

Updated: 3/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nano-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nano-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:nano

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5742