Security Advisory

CVE-2018-25078

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-01-25 00:00:00

Last updated 2025-04-02 13:31:55

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)

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