Vulnerability CVE-2018-25078


Published: 2023-01-26

Description:
man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)

 References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/662438

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