Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1278-1 man-db -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 06 Apr 2007
- Affected Packages:
- man-db
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4250.
- More information:
-
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the man command that could allow an attacker to execute code as the man user by providing specially crafted arguments to the -H flag. This is likely to be an issue only on machines with the man and mandb programs installed setuid.
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-21sarge1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your man-db package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (stable)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.