hi,

the format issue of man seems harmless.
the bug lies inhere

   /* XXX */
                                if (!display (NULL, argv[optind], NULL,
                                             basename(argv[optind]))) {
                                        error (0, errno, argv[optind]);
                                        exit_status = NOT_FOUND;
                                }

where error() is format-capable. However root privs are dropped before.
So, you could gain a user-shell if you want.
Please dont run man setgid, as man doesnt drop effective group ID.

l8,
Sebastian

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