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Debian alert: New man-db packages fix segmentation fault

  • Mailing list (Posted by on CST)
  • Story Type: Security; Groups: Debian
A previous man-db update (DSA-364-1) fixed buffer overruns in ult_src, a part of the "mandb" command that finds the canonical source file for each man page. However, this update introduced an error in the routine that resolves hardlinks: depending on the filenames of hardlinked man pages, that routine might itself overrun allocated memory, causing a segmentation fault.
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