Vulnerability CVE-2001-1277
Published: 2001-06-11   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Wolfram schneider -> Makewhatis 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99227597227747&w=2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-072.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41805
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