CVE-2003-0124

man before 1.5l allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed man file with improper quotes, which causes the my_xsprintf function to return a string with the value "unsafe," which is then executed as a program via a system call if it is in the search path of the user who runs man.

Scoring

CVSS base score
0.08
EPSS probability
1.89%
Published
2004-09-01
Last modified
2026-03-16

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