CVE-2001-1277

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...

Redhat 7.0 local root (via uucp) (attempt 2)

Affects: RedHat 7.0 possibly others 28 Aug 2001 01:27:24 +1200 uucp vulnerability exposed to vendor 9 Nov 2001 07:14:15 +1300 this makewhatis vulnerability exposed to vendor /usr/sbin/makewhatis An earlier version1 of makewhatis had a fault in the handling of compressed files that allowed executi...

CVE-2001-1277

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...

CVE-2000-0566

makewhatis in Linux man package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack...