Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in man-db

CVE-2003-0645 · MEDIUM Severity

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

man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the ~/.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges.

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