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...

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-364-1] 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 -...

DSA-364 man-db - buffer overflows, arbitrary command execution

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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-2003-0620

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 ...

man-db[] multiple(4) vulnerabilities.

part 1: addtodirlist buffer overflow man-db contains a buffer overflow vulnerability do to the lack of bounds checking in multiple sscanf calls. which formats the user supplied file /.manpath. here is the functionsrc/manp.c: static void addtodirlist FILE config, int user char bp; char bufBUFSIZ;...

Multiple man-db problems

Multiple buffer overflows...