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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:43:35.900Z

Reserved: 2003-03-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2003-0124

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-03-18T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-10T01:30:14.500

Link: CVE-2003-0124

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2003-03-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2003-0124 - Bugzilla