Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2001· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2001-1277

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.

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Affected products

Red Hat/manllm-create
Range: <1.5i2
Wolfram Schneider/Makewhatis
cpe:2.3:a:wolfram_schneider:makewhatis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=1.5i2

Patches

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References

www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-072.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
marc.infonvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvd

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