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Exploiting nano
From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:27:10 -0400
I just finished a blog post detailing how the popular text editor, nano, is unsafe to run as root to edit untrusted users' files, with consequences including full privilege escalation: http://drosenbe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nano-as-root.html This is not a disclosure of vulnerabilities per se; rather, it's just a look at how some security assumptions may not hold when running programs as root in a hostile environment, using nano as an example. Nothing earth-shattering, just thought some of you might be interested. Comments welcome. -Dan _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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