CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0620

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-08-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-08-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Multiple 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.

Affected configurations

• andries brouwer man 2.3.18 • andries brouwer man 2.3.19 • andries brouwer man 2.3.20 • andries brouwer man 2.4 • andries brouwer man 2.4.1

References