Google Chrome Accused of Silently Installing 4GB AI Model on User Devices

Cybersecurity researcher Alexander Hanff claims that Google Chrome automatically installs a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model without user notification or consent...

MGASA-2026-0121 Updated nano packages fix security vulnerabilities

Local attacker can inject malicious .desktop launcher due to insecure directory permissions. CVE-2026-6842 Format string vulnerability leads to denial of service. CVE-2026-6843...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: nano-8.5-3.fc43

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor...

Fedora 43 : nano (2026-d0a0f1c3d2)

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-d0a0f1c3d2 advisory. fix CVE-2026-6842 and CVE-29026-6843 Resolves: CVE-2026-6842 Resolves: CVE-2026-6843 Resolves: rhbz2455127 Resolves: rhbz2455314 Tenable has extract...

Google Chrome’s silent 4GB AI download problem [updated]

Google Chrome has been quietly downloading a 4GB AI model onto users' devices without asking first. Security researcher Alexander Hanff, aka ThatPrivacyGuy, reports that Chrome has been silently installing Gemini Nano, Google's on-device AI model, as a file called weights.bin stored in the...

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

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Nano: nano: local attacker can inject malicious .desktop launcher due to insecure directory permissions

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[SECURITY] Fedora 44 Update: nano-8.7.1-2.fc44

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40556

GNU nano creates the user\u2019s /.local directory with overly permis...

CVE-2026-40556

Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40556

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CVE-2026-40556

Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority...

CVE-2026-40556

This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority...

CVE-2026-40556

Removed by vendor...

EUVD-2026-26053

GNU nano creates the user’s /.local directory with overly permissive permissions when the directory does not exist yet. On first use of features requiring Cross-Desktop Group XDG data storage, nano explicitly requests directory mode 0777, making the directory world‑writable in environments where...

CVE-2026-40556

In the connected Debian/CVE entry, GNU nano is affected by a local permission issue: when the user’s ~/.local directory does not exist, nano creates it with mode 0777, making it world‑writable in environments where the umask is lax. This creates a race window where an attacker could leverage the ...

SUSE CVE-2026-6842

A flaw was found in nano. In environments with permissive umask settings, a local attacker can exploit incorrect directory permissions 0777 instead of 0700 for the /.local directory. This allows the attacker to inject a malicious .desktop launcher, which could lead to unintended actions or...

GNU nano 安全漏洞

GNU nano is a lightweight terminal text editor from the GNU community in the United States. Versions of GNU nano prior to 9.0 contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from overly permissive permissions when creating the user’s /.local directory. This could allow local...

PT-2026-35729

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU nano versions prior to 9.0 Description GNU nano creates the user's /.local directory with overly permissive permissions when it does not already exist. During the first use of features requiring Cross-Desktop Group XDG data storage, the...

SUSE CVE-2026-6843

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...