CVE-2003-0620

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP arguments to add_to_dirlist in manp.c, (2) a long pathname to ult_src in ult_src.c, (3) a long .so argument to test_for_include in ult_src.c, (4) a long MANPATH environment variable, or (5) a long PATH environment variable.

Affected products

Andries Brouwer Man: 2.3.18, 2.3.19, 2.3.20, 2.4, 2.4.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105951284512898&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105960276803617&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-364
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105951284512898&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105960276803617&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-364

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