CVE-2024-27297 Nix Corruption of fixed-output derivations

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A fixed-output derivations on Linux can send file descriptors to files in the Nix store to another program running on the host or another fixed-output derivation via Unix domain sockets in the abstract namespace. This allows to modify the...

Nix Security Vulnerabilities

Nix is a powerful package manager from Nix open source. It is used for making packages. A security vulnerability exists in Nix 2.20.3 and earlier versions, which stems from the fact that a fixed-output derivation on Linux can send a file descriptor from Nix storage to another program running on t...

CVE-2024-27297: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. A fixed-output derivations on Linux can send file descriptors to files in the Nix store to another program running on the host or another fixed-output derivation via Unix domain sockets in the abstract namespace. This allows to modify the...

PT-2024-2626

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nix versions prior to 2.3.18 Nix versions prior to 2.18.2 Nix versions prior to 2.19.4 Nix versions prior to 2.20.5 Description The issue is related to errors in synchronization when using a shared resource in the Nix package manager for Unix...

Saltstack Minion Payload Deployer

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Saltstack Minion Payload Deployer', 'Description' = %q This exploit module uses saltstack salt to deploy a payload and run it on all targets whic...

Saltstack Minion Payload Deployer Exploit

This Metasploit exploit module uses saltstack salt to deploy a payload and run it on all targets which have been selected default all. Currently only works against nix targets. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

A broken marriage. Abusing mixed vendor Kerberos stacks

My first DEF CON talk was nerve-racking but something I would definitely put myself through again. In hindsight I should have submitted a 45-minute talk as there were some elements missing from what I presented, based on additional research since submitting the CFP. With that in mind, and for tho...

Package Manager Packages Report (nix)

Reports details about packages installed via package managers TRUSTED...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: netatalk-3.1.14-3.fc37

Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP file server. A NIX/BSD system running Netatalk is capable of serving many Macintosh clients simultaneously as an AppleShare file server AFP...

SUSE CVE-2019-17365

Nix through 2.3 allows local users to gain access to an arbitrary user's account because the parent directory of the user-profile directories is world writable...

Fedora: Security Advisory for cheat (FEDORA-2022-5ef0bd9a27)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: golang-github-prometheus-node-exporter-1.3.1-10.fc36

Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by NIX kernels, writ ten in Go with pluggable metric collectors...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: cheat-4.2.2-5.fc36

Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command- line. It was designed to help remind nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember...

Fedora: Security Advisory for cheat (FEDORA-2022-3e1ade35db)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: cheat-4.2.2-4.fc36

Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command- line. It was designed to help remind nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: golang-github-prometheus-node-exporter-1.3.1-9.fc36

Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by NIX kernels, writ ten in Go with pluggable metric collectors...

Out-of-bounds write in nix::unistd::getgrouplist

On certain platforms, if a user has more than 16 groups, the nix::unistd::getgrouplist function will call the libc getgrouplist function with a length parameter greater than the size of the buffer it provides, resulting in an out-of-bounds write and memory corruption. The libc getgrouplist functi...

GHSA-WGRG-5H56-JG27 Out-of-bounds write in nix::unistd::getgrouplist

On certain platforms, if a user has more than 16 groups, the nix::unistd::getgrouplist function will call the libc getgrouplist function with a length parameter greater than the size of the buffer it provides, resulting in an out-of-bounds write and memory corruption. The libc getgrouplist functi...

acid-store (>=0.2.0, <=0.11.2), acidalia (>=0.1.0, <=0.1.3) +1236 more potentially affected by CVE-2021-45707 via nix (>=0.16.1, <=0.20.0)

nix CARGO version =0.16.1, =0.2.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.0.2, =4.3.1, =0.0.9, =0.1.0, =0.5.4-rc.1, =0.1.0, =0.5.0, =0.10.0, =0.13.0 - albedo 0.0.1-beta.0 and more Source cves: CVE-2021-45707 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-WGRG-5H56-JG27...

acid-store (>=0.8.0, <=0.11.2), alsa (0.5.1) +13 more potentially affected by CVE-2021-45707 via nix (0.21.0)

nix CARGO version 0.21.0 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on nix and may be impacted: - acid-store =0.8.0, =0.1.4, =0.1.4, =0.1.4, =4.0.0, =0.1.0-alpha.1, =0.1.2, =0.10.0, =1.4.10, =0.13.0-alpha.1, =0.0.8, =0.0.13 Source cves: CVE-2021-4570...