CVE-2001-0641

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in man program in various distributions of Linux allows local user to execute arbitrary code as group man via a long -S option.

Buffer overflow in man program in various distributions of Linux allows local user to execute arbitrary code as group man via a long -S option.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-09-20 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 5.2

5.2

Red Hat Linux 6.2

6.2

Red Hat Linux 7.0

7.0

SuSE SuSE Linux 6.0

6.0

SuSE SuSE Linux 6.1

6.1

SuSE SuSE Linux 6.2

6.2

SuSE SuSE Linux 6.3

6.3

SuSE SuSE Linux 6.4

6.4

SuSE SuSE Linux 7.0

7.0

SuSE SuSE Linux 7.1

7.1

References

20010513 RH 7.0:/usr/bin/man exploit: gid man + more

Vendor Advisory

SuSE-SA:2001:019

RHSA-2001:069

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20010612 man 1.5h10 + man 1.5i-4 exploits

2711

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

man-s-bo(6530)

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