CVE-2001-1277

Public Date:
2001-06-11
Bugzilla:
1616663: CVE-2001-1277 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2001-1277 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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