Andries Brouwer Man vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-0124 [MEDIUM] CVE-2003-0124: man before 1.5l allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed man file with improper qu 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.

CVE-2003-0645 [MEDIUM] CVE-2003-0645: man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the ~/.manpath man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the ~/.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privileges.

CVE-2003-0620 [MEDIUM] CVE-2003-0620: Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to g Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP arguments to add_to_dirlist in manp.c, (2) a long pathname to ult_src in ult_src.c, (3) a long .so argument to test_for_include in ult_src.c, (4) a long MANPATH environment variable, or (5) a