CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-0170

Published: Feb 26, 2000 | Modified: Sep 10, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Buffer overflow in the man program in Linux allows local users to gain privileges via the MANPAGER environmental variable.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux Redhat 5.1 5.1
Linux Redhat 6.2 6.2
Linux Redhat 5.0 5.0
Turbolinux Turbolinux 4.4 4.4
Turbolinux Turbolinux 4.2 4.2
Linux Redhat 5.2 5.2
Linux Redhat 4.1 4.1
Linux Redhat 4.0 4.0
Linux Redhat 4.2 4.2
Linux Redhat 6.0 6.0
Turbolinux Turbolinux 3.5b2 3.5b2

References