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If through a vulnerability assessment, a network security issue is detected for the vulnerability below, applying the appropriate security patches in a timely matter is very important. If you have detected that your system has already been compromised, following CERT's Network Security recovery document will assist with recommended steps for system recovery. Home >> Browse Vulnerability Assessment Database >> Debian Local Security Checks >> [DSA059] DSA-059-1 man-db Vulnerability Assessment Details
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[DSA059] DSA-059-1 man-db |
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DSA-059-1 man-db Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Luki R. reported a bug in man-db: it did not handle nested calls of drop_effective_privs() and regain_effective_privs() correctly which would cause it to regain rights too early. This could be abused to make man create files as user man. This has been fixed in version 2.3.16-4, and we recommend that you upgrade your man-db package immediately. If you use suidmanager you can also use that to make sure man and mandb are not installed suid which protects you from this problem. This can be done with the following commands: suidregister /usr/lib/man-db/man root root 0755 suidregister /usr/lib/man-db/mandb root root 0755 Of course even when using suidmanager an upgrade is still strongly recommended. Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-059 Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: 2720, 2815 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi |
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