CVE-2003-0620: Andries Brouwer Man

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Andries Brouwer Man: version 2.3.18 only; version 2.3.19 only; version 2.3.20 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.4.1 only

Published 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.