CVE-2003-0124 (GCVE-0-2003-0124)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-09-01 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 01:43
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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