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UbuntuUSN-5334-1

HistoryMar 17, 2022 - 12:00 a.m.

man-db vulnerability

2022-03-1700:00:00

ubuntu.com

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man-db

ubuntu

privilege escalation

race condition

arbitrary code execution

security vulnerability

CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

26.8%

JSON

Releases

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

man-db - on-line manual pager

Details

It was discovered that man-db incorrectly handled permission changing
operations in its daily cron job, and was therefore affected by a race
condition. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges
and execute arbitrary code.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu16.04noarchman-db< 2.7.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchman-db< 2.7.5-1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu16.04noarchman-db-dbgsym< 2.7.5-1UNKNOWN