Vulnerability in Debian Linux

CVE-2001-0193

Format string vulnerability in man in some Linux distributions allows local users to gain privileges via a malformed -l parameter.

EPSS: 0.011 (61.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Debian Debian_linux — versions 2.2
Suse Suse_linux — versions 6.3, 6.4, 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)