Vulnerability in Xfree86 Project X11r6

CVE-2001-1179

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

EPSS: 0.004 (37.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Xfree86_project X11r6 — versions 3.3.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)