Name | CVE-2006-4250 |
Description | 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-1278-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
man-db (PTS) | stretch | 2.7.6.1-2 | fixed |
buster | 2.8.5-2 | fixed | |
bullseye | 2.9.4-2 | fixed | |
bookworm, sid | 2.10.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
man-db | source | sarge | 2.4.2-21sarge1 | DSA-1278-1 | ||
man-db | source | (unstable) | 2.4.3-5 |