CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0170

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-02-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-02-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 4.0 • redhat linux 4.1 • redhat linux 4.2 • redhat linux 5.0 • redhat linux 5.1 • redhat linux 5.2 • redhat linux 6.0 • redhat linux 6.2 • turbolinux turbolinux 3.5b2 • turbolinux turbolinux 4.2 • turbolinux turbolinux 4.4

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