{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2010-1160", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "[Nano-devel] 20100407 New prerelease for security tweaks", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2010-04/msg00000.html" }, { "name": "http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/ChangeLog?revision=4503&root=nano&view=markup", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/ChangeLog?revision=4503&root=nano&view=markup" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20100414 CVE request: GNU nano (minor)", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/4" }, { "name": "1023891", "refsource": "SECTRACK", "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023891" }, { "name": "http://drosenbe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nano-as-root.html", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://drosenbe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nano-as-root.html" }, { "name": "39444", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/39444" } ] } }