4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%
Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, 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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | man-db | < 2.4.1-13 | man-db_2.4.1-13_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | man-db | < 2.4.1-13 | man-db_2.4.1-13_all.deb |
Debian | 10 | all | man-db | < 2.4.1-13 | man-db_2.4.1-13_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | man-db | < 2.4.1-13 | man-db_2.4.1-13_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | man-db | < 2.4.1-13 | man-db_2.4.1-13_all.deb |