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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-25T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:51:07.538Z

Reserved: 2002-05-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2001-1277

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-06-11T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-20T23:37:18.743

Link: CVE-2001-1277

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2001-06-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2001-1277 - Bugzilla