Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2003-0620. PoCs published by V9.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates multiple local buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the mandb utility due to insufficient bounds checking on user-supplied data. The PoC triggers segmentation faults by manipulating environment variables and command-line arguments, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution in the context of the mandb utility.
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP arguments to add_to_dirlist in manp.c, (2) a long pathname to ult_src in ult_src.c, (3) a long .so argument to test_for_include in ult_src.c, (4) a long MANPATH environment variable, or (5) a long PATH environment variable.
Exploits (1)
This exploit demonstrates multiple local buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the mandb utility due to insufficient bounds checking on user-supplied data. The PoC triggers segmentation faults by manipulating environment variables and command-line arguments, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution in the context of the mandb utility.