makewhatis in the man package before 1.5i2 allows an attacker in group man to overwrite arbitrary files via a man page whose name contains shell metacharacters.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-25T04:00:00

Updated: 2002-06-16T00:00:00

Reserved: 2002-05-01T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2001-1277

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-06-11T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2016-10-18T02:14:27.293


Link: CVE-2001-1277

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