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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.1 Critical

CVE-2024-45593

Nix affected by unsafe NAR unpacking

Description

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A bug in Nix 2.24 prior to 2.24.6 allows a substituter or malicious user to craft a NAR that, when unpacked by Nix, causes Nix to write to arbitrary file system locations to which the Nix process has access. This will be with root permissions when using the Nix daemon. This issue is fixed in Nix 2.24.6.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

NixOS nix

  • >= 2.24.0, < 2.24.6affected

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