CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-1277

Published: Jun 11, 2001 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-1277
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Makewhatis	Wolfram_schneider	*	1.5i2 (including)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=99227597227747\u0026w=2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-072.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41805

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