Vulnerabilities (CVE)

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Total 2 CVE
CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v2 CVSS v3
CVE-2018-25078 1 Man-db Project 1 Man-db 2024-11-21 N/A 7.8 HIGH
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.)
CVE-2015-1336 3 Canonical, Debian, Man-db Project 3 Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Man-db 2024-11-21 7.2 HIGH 7.8 HIGH
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.