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CVE-2001-1277

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 s

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Summary

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.

Timeline

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Affected versions

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References 3

bugzilla.redhat.com

marc.info

redhat.com