Published: 28/09/2017 Updated: 11/10/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 725

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

The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db prior to 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.

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Debian Bug report logs - #840357 CVE-2015-1336 Package: man-db; Maintainer for man-db is Colin Watson <cjwatson@debianorg>; Source for man-db is src:man-db (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:33:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security Found in version ...

/* EDB Note: man:man -> man:root ~ wwwhalfdognet/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/ man:root -> root:root ~ wwwhalfdognet/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ CreateSetgidBinaryc ~ wwwhalfdognet/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/CreateSetgidBinaryc DirModifyInotif ...

CWE-284 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1482786 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840357 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/11 http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1336.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79723 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840357 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41158/

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