CVE-2003-0124

published 2003-03-18

CVE-2003-0124: man before 1.5l allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed man file with improper quotes, which causes the my_xsprintf function to return a…

Priority P4 20 medium 4.6 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

man before 1.5l allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed man file with improper quotes, which causes the my_xsprintf function to return a string with the value "unsafe," which is then executed as a program via a system call if it is in the search path of the user who runs man.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
andries_brouwer	man	—	—
andries_brouwer	man	—	—
andries_brouwer	man	—	—
andries_brouwer	man	—	—
andries_brouwer	man	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_redhat 4.6 MEDIUM

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