CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-0645

Published: Aug 27, 2003 | Modified: Jul 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Man Andries_brouwer 2.3.20 (including) 2.3.20 (including)
Man Andries_brouwer 2.4.1 (including) 2.4.1 (including)

References