Man Utility Local Compression Program Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

BID:8675

Info

Man Utility Local Compression Program Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8675
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 22 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 22 2003 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was reported in a Conectiva advisory.
Vulnerable: man man 2.3.19
+ Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Man Utility Local Compression Program Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported in man that may allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges. The problem lies in man failing to carry out sufficient sanity checks before executing a user-defined compression program. As a result, it may be possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code with user 'man' privileges.

Exploit / POC

Man Utility Local Compression Program Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

No exploit required. The following proof of concept has been supplied:

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