National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4250

Overview

Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the -H flag.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1278

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1278

External Source: XF

Name: mandb-hflag-bo(33508)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33508

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1295

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1295

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1294

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1294

External Source: BID

Name: 23355

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23355

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2007:007

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24995

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24995

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24828

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24828

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24801

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24801