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5.5Medium CVE-2026-6843 Gnu

A flaw was found in nano.

A flaw was found in nano. A local user could exploit a format string vulnerability in the `statusline()` function. By creating a directory with a name containing `printf` specifiers, the application attempts to display this name, leading to a segmentation fault (SEGV). This results in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the `nano` application.

What happened

A flaw was found in nano. A local user could exploit a format string vulnerability in the `statusline()` function. By creating a directory with a name containing `printf` specifiers, the application attempts to display this name, leading to a segmentation fault (SEGV). This results in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the `nano` application.

Does it affect you

Not enough information

No products recorded, so this cannot be matched against anything.

What to do

The vendor has not published remediation yet. We do not invent it.

Vendor's affected list

rhel
Exactly 6.0

Sources

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