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TITLE:
man-db "BROWSER" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24801

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
man-db 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/1937/

DESCRIPTION:
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.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jochen Voß

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