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Vulnerability in man < 1.5l Mar 11 2003 06:24PM
Jack Lloyd (lloyd acm jhu edu)

man 1.5l was released today, fixing a bug which results in arbitrary code
execution upon reading a specially formatted man file. The basic problem
is, upon finding a string with a quoting problem, the function my_xsprintf
in util.c will return "unsafe" (rather than returning a string which could
be...

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