$ cve CVE-2006-4250 JSON

CVE-2006-4250 EXPLOIT

4.6

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 1.3% (pctl 70)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

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.

CVSS	4.6 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS	1.33% — more likely to be exploited than 70% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2007-04-10
Last modified	2026-06-16

Vendor	Product
debian	debian linux

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Man Command - -H Flag Local Buffer Overflow	2007-04-06