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.

Date published : 2002-06-25

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99227597227747&w=2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41805