HIGH 7.8 Microsoft
CVE-2018-25078
man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)
Microsoft Security Update 2023-Jan: man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)
Affected Products
- cm1 man-db 2.8.4-5 on CBL Mariner 1.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2018-25078
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25078
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2023-01-10 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 man-db 2.8.4-5 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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