Bug 1616663 (CVE-2001-1277)

Summary: CVE-2001-1277 security flaw
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Stephen Herr <sherr>
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 01:28:58 UTC
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.

Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 17:14:06 UTC
MITRE 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.