Executive Summary

Summary
Title New man-db packages released
Informations
Name DSA-028 First vendor Publication 2001-02-09
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2001-02-09
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Styx has reported that the program `man' mistakenly passes malicious strings (i.e. containing format characters) through routines that were not meant to use them as format strings. Since this could cause a segmentation fault and privileges were not dropped it may lead to an exploit for the 'man' user.

We recommend you upgrade your man-db package immediately.

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-028

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 6
Os 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 028-1 (man-db)
File : nvt/deb_028_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
1756 Linux man -l Format String

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-09-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-028.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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