__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN mandb [Debian Security Advisory DSA-1278-1] April 13, 2007 18:00 GMT Number R-210 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: A buffer overflow has been discovered in the man command that could allow an attacker to execute code as the man user by providing specially crafted arguments to the -H flag. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (stable) DAMAGE: Could allow an attacker to execute code as the man user. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. Could allow an attacker to execute code as the ASSESSMENT: man user. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-210.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1278 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2006-4250 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-1278-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-1278-1 man-db -- buffer overflow Date Reported: 06 Apr 2007 Affected Packages: man-db Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4250. More information: A buffer overflow has been dicovered in the man command that could allow an attacker to execute code as the man user by providing specially crafted arguments to the -H flag. This is likely to be an issue only on machines with the man and mandb programs installed setuid. For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-21sarge1. For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-5. We recommend that you upgrade your man-db package. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (stable) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1.diff.gz Alpha: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_alpha.deb AMD64: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_amd64.deb ARM: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_arm.deb HP Precision: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_hppa.deb Intel IA-32: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_i386.deb Intel IA-64: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_ia64.deb Motorola 680x0: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_m68k.deb Big-endian MIPS: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_mips.deb Little-endian MIPS: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_mipsel.deb PowerPC: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_powerpc.deb IBM S/390: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_s390.deb Sun Sparc: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.2-21sarge1_sparc.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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