CVE

Id
3983  
CVE No.
CVE-2001-1179  
Status
Candidate  
Description
xman allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the MANPATH to point to a man page whose filename contains shell metacharacters.  
Phase
Proposed (20020315)  
Votes
MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(6) Armstrong, Cole, Foat, Green, Wall, Ziese  
Comments
CHANGE> [Frech changed vote from REVIEWING to MODIFY] | Frech> XF:xfree86-xman-manpath-privileges(8716)