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CVE-2003-0124

Published: Mar 18, 2003 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0124
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ManAndries_brouwer1.5h1 (including)1.5h1 (including)
ManAndries_brouwer1.5i (including)1.5i (including)
ManAndries_brouwer1.5i2 (including)1.5i2 (including)
ManAndries_brouwer1.5j (including)1.5j (including)
ManAndries_brouwer1.5k (including)1.5k (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1RedHat*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1RedHat*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1RedHat*
Red Hat Linux 7.1RedHat*
Red Hat Linux 7.2RedHat*
Red Hat Linux 7.3RedHat*
Red Hat Linux 8.0RedHat*
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1RedHat*

References

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