| Summary: | sys-apps/man-db: TOCTOU bug when processing catman pages | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | base-system |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292432 | ||
| Whiteboard: | A3 [upstream cve] | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
the bug in question is about the cron script Ubuntu uses. our script isn't impacted as we don't chown files under the cache dir. |
From ${URL} : The following flaw was found in man-db: The daily mandb cleanup job for old catman pages changes the permissions of all non-man files to user man. Originally filed against Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1482786 External References: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/MandbSymlinkLocalRootPrivilegeEscalation/ @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.