Vulnerability CVE-2001-0641

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2001-0641 (CCN-6530)

Assigned:

2001-05-13

Published:

2001-05-13

Updated:

2017-10-10

Summary:

Buffer overflow in man program in various distributions of Linux allows local user to execute arbitrary code as group man via a long -S option.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.9 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Low Integrity (I): Low Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.6 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): Partial

4.6 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): Partial

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-Other

Vulnerability Consequences:

Gain Privileges

References:

Source: BUGTRAQ
Type: Vendor Advisory
20010513 RH 7.0:/usr/bin/man exploit: gid man + more

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Sun May 13 2001 - 15:17:22 CDT
RH 7.0:/usr/bin/man exploit: gid man + more

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Mon May 14 2001 - 05:40:59 CDT
Re: RH7.0: man local gid 15 (man) exploit

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Mon May 14 2001 - 14:21:47 CDT
Re: RH7.0: man local gid 15 (man) exploit [UNCONFIRMED]

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, May 14 2001 - 20:00:28 CDT
Re: RH7.0: man local gid 15 (man) exploit

Source: CCN
Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Jun 11 2001 - 07:40:51 CDT
man 1.5h10 + man 1.5i-4 exploits

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2001-0641

Source: CCN
Type: RHSA-2001-069
Updated man package fixing security problems available

Source: SUSE
Type: UNKNOWN
SuSE-SA:2001:019

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 1821
man -S Option Local Overflow

Source: REDHAT
Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory
RHSA-2001:069

Source: BUGTRAQ
Type: UNKNOWN
20010612 man 1.5h10 + man 1.5i-4 exploits

Source: BID
Type: Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
2711

Source: CCN
Type: BID-2711
Man -S Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Source: CCN
Type: SuSE Security Announcement SuSE-SA:2001:019
man

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
man-s-bo(6530)

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
man-s-bo(6530)

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:immunix:immunix:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2:

cpe:/o:redhat:linux:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*