CVE-2015-1336 (GCVE-0-2015-1336)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-27 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-d… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlink… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79723 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-12 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/1… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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