LAYER: meta
PACKAGE NAME: man-db
PACKAGE VERSION: 2.12.0
CVE: CVE-2015-1336
CVE STATUS: Patched
CVE SUMMARY: The daily mandb cleanup job in Man-db before 2.7.6.1-1 as packaged in Ubuntu and Debian allows local users with access to the man account to gain privileges via vectors involving insecure chown use.
CVSS v2 BASE SCORE: 7.2
CVSS v3 BASE SCORE: 7.8
VECTOR: LOCAL
VECTORSTRING: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
MORE INFORMATION: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1336

LAYER: meta
PACKAGE NAME: man-db
PACKAGE VERSION: 2.12.0
CVE: CVE-2018-25078
CVE STATUS: Patched
CVE SUMMARY: man-db before 2.8.5 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the man user account) to gain root privileges because /usr/bin/mandb is executed by root but not owned by root. (Also, the owner can strip the setuid and setgid bits.)
CVSS v2 BASE SCORE: 0.0
CVSS v3 BASE SCORE: 7.8
VECTOR: LOCAL
VECTORSTRING: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
MORE INFORMATION: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25078