vendor:
man
by:
Kil3r of Lam3rZ
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Buffer Overrun
119
CWE
Product Name: man
Affected Version From: RedHat 4.0/4.1/4.2/5.0/5.1/5.2/6.0/6.2,RedHat man 1.5,Turbolinux man 1.5,Turbolinux 3.5/4.2/4.4
Affected Version To: RedHat 4.0/4.1/4.2/5.0/5.1/5.2/6.0/6.2,RedHat man 1.5,Turbolinux man 1.5,Turbolinux 3.5/4.2/4.4
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit:
N/A
Other Scripts:
N/A
Tags: N/A
CVSS Metrics: N/A
Nuclei References:
N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: Linux
2000
RedHat 4.0/4.1/4.2/5.0/5.1/5.2/6.0/6.2,RedHat man 1.5,Turbolinux man 1.5,Turbolinux 3.5/4.2/4.4 man Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
A buffer overflow exists in the implementation of the 'man' program shipped with RedHat Linux, and other Linux vendors. By carefully crafting a long buffer of machine executable code, and placing it in the MANPAGER environmental variable, it becomes possible for a would be attacker to gain egid man. Using attacks previously outlined by Pawel Wilk, and available in the reference portion of the credit section, it is possible for an attacker to alter manpages such that code will be executed. Upon looking up an altered manpage, code will be executed with the privileges of the person running man. If this person is the root user, root privileges can be obtained.
Mitigation:
Ensure that the MANPAGER environmental variable is not set to a long buffer of machine executable code.