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CVE-2003-0124

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2003-03-18 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Andries Brouwer Man

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References