CVE-2018-25078

man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users with access to the man user account to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits...

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-2003-0645

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...