On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:07:34PM -0000, zenith parsec wrote:
> ========================================================
> Vulnerable systems: redhat 7.0 with man-1.5h1-10 (default
> package) and earlier.
> =========================================================
> Heap Based Overflow of man via -S option gives GID man.
Caldera OpenLinux is not vulnerable to this problem. Our man-1.5 package
comes with a patch that forks off a "cache manager" thread that puts
formatted pages into /var/catman, while the man application itself
continues in the foreground without any privilege.
Olaf
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