Local Privilege Escalation via Command Line Options in mandb

CVE-2001-1331 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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