CVE-2006-4250: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the -H flag.

Affected products

Published 2007-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.