First published: Thu May 03 2001(Updated: )
mandb in the man-db package before 2.3.16-3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via the command line options (1) -u or (2) -c, which do not drop privileges and follow symlinks.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Debian Debian Linux | =2.2 | |
Progeny Debian | =1.0 |
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