Vulnerability in Progeny Debian

CVE-2001-1331

mandb in the man-db package before 2.3.16-3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via the command line options (1) -u or (2) -c, which do not drop privileges and follow symlinks.

EPSS: 0.003 (21.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Progeny Debian — versions 1.0
Debian Debian_linux — versions 2.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)