Security update to man-db

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Author: JT Smith

LWN.net has this: “Styx has reported that the program `man’ mistakenly passes malicious
strings (i.e. containing format characters) through routines that were
not meant to use them as format strings. Since this could cause a
segmentation fault and privileges were not dropped it may lead to an
exploit for the ‘man’ user.

We recommend you upgrade your man-db package immediately.”

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  • Linux