CVE-2006-4250

2007-04-1000:00:00

ubuntu.com

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%

JSON

Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local
users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the -H flag.

Notes

Author	Note
kees	man-db is not installed set[ug]id

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu7.04noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.10noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.04noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.10noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN
ubuntu9.04noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN
ubuntu9.10noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN
ubuntu10.04noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN
ubuntu10.10noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN
ubuntu11.04noarchman-db< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	7.04	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	7.10	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	8.04	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	8.10	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	9.04	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	9.10	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	10.04	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	10.10	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	11.04	noarch	man-db	< 2.4.3-5ubuntu1	UNKNOWN