The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.html | Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1336.html | Third Party Advisory |
http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/14/11 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79723 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840357 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1482786 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-12 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published: 2017-09-27T15:00:00
Updated: 2017-09-28T09:57:01
Reserved: 2015-01-22T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-1336
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-09-28T01:29:00.420
Modified: 2017-10-11T13:47:13.350
Link: CVE-2015-1336
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE