DSA-1278-1 man-db - buffer overflow

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Debian DSA-028-1 : man-db - format string vulnerability

Styx has reported that the program man' mistakenly passes malicious strings i.e. containing format characters through routines that were not meant to use them as format strings. Since this could cause a segmentation fault and privileges were not dropped it may lead to an exploit for the 'man' use...

Debian DSA-059-1 : man-db - symlink attack

Luki R. reported a bug in man-db: it did not handle nested calls ofdropeffectiveprivs and regaineffectiveprivs correctly which would cause it to regain privileges too early. This could be abused to make man create files as user man. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-364-3 : man-db - buffer overflows, arbitrary command execution

man-db provides the standard man1 command on Debian systems. During configuration of this package, the administrator is asked whether man1 should run setuid to a dedicated user 'man' in order to provide a shared cache of preformatted manual pages. The default is for man1 NOT to be setuid, and in...

Debian DSA-056-1 : man-db - local file overwrite

Ethan Benson found a bug in man-db packages as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. man-db includes a mandb tool which is used to build an index of the manual pages installed on a system. When the -u or -c option were given on the command-line to tell it to write its database to a different...

CVE-2003-0645

man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the /.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2003-0620

Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via 1 MANDATORYMANPATH, MANPATHMAP, and MANDBMAP arguments to addtodirlist in manp.c, 2 a long pathname to ultsrc in ultsrc.c, 3 a long .so argument to testforinclude in ultsrc.c, 4 ...

CVE-2003-0645

man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the /.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2003-0620

Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via 1 MANDATORYMANPATH, MANPATHMAP, and MANDBMAP arguments to addtodirlist in manp.c, 2 a long pathname to ultsrc in ultsrc.c, 3 a long .so argument to testforinclude in ultsrc.c, 4 ...

[SECURITY] [DSA-364-3] New man-db packages fix segmentation fault

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 364-3 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman August 18th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2003-0645

man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the /.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2003-0645

man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the /.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2003-0645

CVE-2003-0645 affects man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 up to 2.4.1, where user-controlled DEFINE directives in ~/.manpath are honored even when running setuid, allowing local escalation to the 'man' user. The vulnerability is described across multiple sources (Debian SUSE OSV/openvas/NVD) with local-priv...

CVE-2003-0645: Undefined Security Weakness

man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the /.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges...

[SECURITY] [DSA-364-2] New man-db packages fix problem with DSA-364-1

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 364-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman August 8th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

man-db 2.4.1 open_cat_stream() Local uid=man Exploit

No description provided by source. !/bin/bash xmandb.sh: shell command file. man-dbv2.4.1-: local uid=man exploit. by: vade79/v9 v9 fakehalo deadpig org fakehalo opencatstream privileged call exploit. i've been conversing with the new man-db maintainer, and after the initial post sent to...

man-db 2.4.1 open_cat_stream() Local uid=man Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ==================================================== man-db 2.4.1 opencatstream Local uid=man Exploit ==================================================== !/bin/bash xmandb.sh: shell command file. man-dbv2.4.1-: local uid=man exploit. by:...

man-db 2.4.1 - open_cat_stream() Local uidman

man-db 2.4.1 - opencatstream Local uidman !/bin/bash xmandb.sh: shell command file. man-dbv2.4.1-: local uid=man exploit. by: vade79/v9 v9 fakehalo deadpig org fakehalo opencatstream privileged call exploit. i've been conversing with the new man-db maintainer, and after the initial post sent to...

man-db 2.4.1 - 'open_cat_stream()' Local uid=man

!/bin/bash xmandb.sh: shell command file. man-dbv2.4.1-: local uid=man exploit. by: vade79/v9 v9 fakehalo deadpig org fakehalo opencatstream privileged call exploit. i've been conversing with the new man-db maintainer, and after the initial post sent to bugtraqwhich i forgot to inform him, i sent...

[SECURITY] [DSA-364-1] New man-db packages fix buffer overflows, arbitrary command execution

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 364-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman August 4th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...