CVE-2001-1277 | BDVDB-2026-4345 Detail

Description#

makewhatis in the man package before 1.5i2 allows an attacker in group man to overwrite arbitrary files via a man page whose name contains shell metacharacters.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41805
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99227597227747&w=2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-072.html

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12002-06-25Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-08Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.