Vulnerabilites related to man-db_project - man-db
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-01-26 21:15
Modified
2025-04-02 14:15
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.)
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| man-db_project | man-db | * |
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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-09-28 01:29
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
Summary
The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| man-db_project | man-db | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| man-db_project | man-db | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 |
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CVE-2015-1336 (GCVE-0-2015-1336)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-27 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 04:40
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1482786 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.html | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1336.html | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79723 | vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-12 | vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO | |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/11 | mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST | |
| https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840357 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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CVE-2018-25078 (GCVE-0-2018-25078)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-25 00:00
Modified
2025-04-02 13:31
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.)
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://bugs.gentoo.org/662438 | ||
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-08 | vendor-advisory |
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