CVE-2006-4250

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the -H flag.

Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the -H flag.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-04-10 18:19:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:32:00

Affected Software

Debian Debian Linux 3.1

3.1

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