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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00
Updated: 2004-08-11T00:00:00
Reserved: 2003-03-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2003-0124
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2003-03-18T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2017-10-10T01:30:14.500
Link: CVE-2003-0124
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