CVE-2001-1331

Severity

12%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2001-05-03 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:10:00

Affected Software

Debian Debian Linux 2.2

2.2

References

http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3307

DSA-056

Patch, Vendor Advisory

2720

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