Published: 27/08/2003 Updated: 18/10/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 465

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and previous versions, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP arguments to add_to_dirlist in manp.c, (2) a long pathname to ult_src in ult_src.c, (3) a long .so argument to test_for_include in ult_src.c, (4) a long MANPATH environment variable, or (5) a long PATH environment variable.

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man-db provides the standard man(1) command on Debian systems During configuration of this package, the administrator is asked whether man(1) should run setuid to a dedicated user ("man") in order to provide a shared cache of preformatted manual pages The default is for man(1) NOT to be setuid, and in this configuration no known vulnerability exi ...

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/8303/info The mandb utility has been reported to be affected by multiple local buffer overflow vulnerabilities These issues present themselves due to insufficient bounds checking performed on user-supplied data before it is copied into reserved buffers in memory It has been reported that a local attacker ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-364 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105960276803617&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105951284512898&w=2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-364 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22971/

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