CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0641

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-09-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-09-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in man program in various distributions of Linux allows local user to execute arbitrary code as group man via a long -S option.

Affected configurations

• immunix immunix 6.2 • immunix immunix 7.0 • immunix immunix 7.0 beta • redhat linux 5.2 • redhat linux 6.2 • redhat linux 7.0 • suse suse linux 6.0 • suse suse linux 6.1 • suse suse linux 6.2 • suse suse linux 6.3 • suse suse linux 6.4 • suse suse linux 7.0 • suse suse linux 7.1

References