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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-1133-35er-4kec",
    "summary": "mandb in the man-db package before 2.3.16-3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via the command line options (1) -u or (2) -c, which do not drop privileges and follow symlinks.",
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