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Published: 10/04/2007 Updated: 20/07/2017

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

Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and previous versions allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the -H flag.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/23355/info The 'man' command is prone to a local buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before using it in a memory copy operation NOTE: Presumably, this issue is exploitable only when 'man' has been installed setuid Exploiting this issue allows attac ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1278 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23355 http://secunia.com/advisories/24801 http://secunia.com/advisories/24828 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html http://secunia.com/advisories/24995 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1294 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1295 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33508 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29822/

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