Bug 10338 – man overflow exploit.

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Bug 10338 - man overflow exploit.

Summary:	man overflow exploit.

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 9892

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	man (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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URL:	http://securityfocus.com/data/vulnera...
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Keywords:	Security

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Reported:	2000-03-24 21:19 EST by zurk
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Last Closed:	2000-03-24 21:36:03 EST
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Description zurk 2000-03-24 21:19:33 EST

A buffer overflow exists in the implementation of the 'man' program
 shipped with RedHat Linux, and other LInux vendors. By carefully
 crafting a long buffer of machine executable code, and placing it in the
 MANPATH environmental variable, it becomes possible for a would be
 attacker to gain egid man.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-03-24 21:36:59 EST

This has been reported and fixed a couple of months ago.
We didn't release an errata package because it is non-critical; at the very
worst, someone getting gid man can present false man pages to users who access
the previously generated man page cache instead of rebuilding the man pages.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9892 ***

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