Security Advisory

CVE-2003-0620

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2003-08-01 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 01:58:11

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

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