CVE-2003-0124

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.5%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDSep 1

1st PoCMar 11

exploitation probability

1.5%top 28% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/22344

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References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000620 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104740927915154&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104802285112752&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11512 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-133.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-134.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7066