EDB-75

functional

man-db 2.4.1 - 'open_cat_stream()' Local uid=man

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor vade79published 2003-08-06catalog exploit_db
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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2003-0645USmedium4.6Exploit
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 privilege…
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