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Bug#: 173919
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2007-04-09 15:15 0000 
Jochen Voß has reported a vulnerability in man-db, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error if the "BROWSER"
environment variable contains "%s" expansions. This can be exploited to cause a
buffer overflow and may allow the execution of arbitrary code with escalated
privileges.

Solution:
Update to version 2.4.4.

------- Comment #1 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-04-09 15:16:46 0000 ------- 
setting status.

------- Comment #2 From SpanKY 2007-04-13 10:14:51 0000 ------- 
no need for security to be involved as no one has ever stabled this package

------- Comment #3 From SpanKY 2007-04-13 10:19:22 0000 ------- 
2.4.4 now in portage
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