Gentoo: 202104-25 Important: User Shell Compromise Warning Notice
gentoo
March 18, 2003
man 1.5l fixes a bug which results in arbitrary code execution upon reading a specially formatted man file.
Summary
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- From advisory:
"man 1.5l was released today, fixing a bug which results in arbitrary code execution upon reading a specially formatted man file. The basic problem is, upon finding a string with a quoting problem, the function my_xsprintf in util.c will return "unsafe" (rather than returning a string which could be interpreted by the shell). This return value is passed directly to system(3) - meaning if there is any program named `unsafe`, it will execute with the privs of the user."
Read the full advisory at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104740927915154&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-apps/man upgrade to man-1.5l as follows:
emerge sync emerge man e...Read the Full Advisory
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PACKAGE : man
SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution
DATE : 2003-03-18 18:03 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <1.5l : fixed version>=1.5l
CVE : CAN-2003-0124
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