PT-2017-6482 · Man Db+1 · Man-Db+1

Halfdog · Published 2017-09-27 · Updated 2022-03-17 · CVE-2015-1336

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Man-db versions prior to 2.7.6.1-1

Description The issue concerns the daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db, which allows local users with access to the 'man' account to gain privileges. This is achieved through vectors involving the insecure use of the chown function.

Recommendations For Man-db versions prior to 2.7.6.1-1, update to version 2.7.6.1-1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'man' account to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-1336

USN-5334-1

Affected Products

Man-Db

Ubuntu

References · 20

• 🔥 http://halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/41158 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140759/Man-db-2.6.7.1-Privilege-Escalation.html · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1336 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1336 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5334-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1336 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5334-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-12 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1336 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-1336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840357 · Note