VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2003-0620

CVSS score4.6 MEDIUM

EPSS probability0.80%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2003-08-27

Last modified2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP arguments to add_to_dirlist in manp.c, (2) a long pathname to ult_src in ult_src.c, (3) a long .so argument to test_for_include in ... .