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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 17, 2001· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2001-1179

CVE-2001-1179

Description

xman allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the MANPATH to point to a man page whose filename contains shell metacharacters.

Affected products

1

Xorg/X11r6
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

1

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197498nvdExploit

News mentions

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