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CVE-2015-1336

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

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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.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-41158

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 9

bugs.launchpad.net

packetstormsecurity.com

halfdog.net

people.canonical.com

securityfocus.com

security.gentoo.org

openwall.com

bugs.debian.org

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