CVE-2003-0620

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Summary

CVECVE-2003-0620
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-08-27 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2016-10-18 02:35:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP arguments to add_to_dirlist in manp.c, (2) a long pathname to ult_src in ult_src.c, (3) a long .so argument to test_for_include in ult_src.c, (4) a long MANPATH environment variable, or (5) a long PATH environment variable.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.3.18 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.3.19 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.3.20 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.4 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.4.1 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.3.18 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.3.19 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.3.20 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.4 All All All
Application Andries Brouwer Man 2.4.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-364-3 man-db DEBIAN www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
'man-db[] multiple(4) vulnerabilities.' - MARC BUGTRAQ marc.info
'Re: man-db[] multiple(4) vulnerabilities.' - MARC BUGTRAQ marc.info
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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