vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-1336: MAN DB: Privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 27, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

A local user who does not belong to the root group, but has the ability
to modify the /var/cache/man directory can escalate privileges to the
group root.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-apps-man-db
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