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CVE-2026-6843

Nano: nano: format string vulnerability leads to denial of service PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4affected

CWE

CWE-134

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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