Debian 2.2 DSA-004-1 Critical: Nano Symlink Attack Mitigation

Package : nano
Problem type : symlink attack
Debian-specific: no

The problem that was previously reported for joe also occurs with
other editors. When nano (a free pico clone) unexpectedly dies
it tries a warning message to a new file with a predictable name
(the name of the file being edited with ".save" appended). Unfortunately
that file was not created safely which made nano vulnerable to a
symlink attack.

This has been fixed in version 0.9.23-1 (except for powerpc, which has
version 0.9.23-1.1).

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: 5c878e43e5161ee25043f60886c88b03

MD5 checksum: 85879b609fbcd5b091e686d16e75865b

MD5 checksum: 56bdf48e0d56b83ca669ec813cc0d466

Alpha architecture:

MD5 checksum: f7bba57357225edc934d5adb1ef2259e

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