CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0124

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-03-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-03-18
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

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 configurations

• andries brouwer man 1.5h1 • andries brouwer man 1.5i • andries brouwer man 1.5i2 • andries brouwer man 1.5j • andries brouwer man 1.5k

References