Hi,



This issue has been discussed in vuln-dev (2001-01-26), see:

http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?end=2001-01-27&tid=15872

4&fromthread=0&start=2001-01-21&threads=1&list=82&



Posted also on suse security list, and aparently overlooked.



The man package that ships with SuSe Linux ( at least versions 6.1 throught

7.0 ) has a format string vulnerability. Also debian 2.2r2 ( at least ), is

confirmed to have the same problem.





jroberto@spike:~ > man -l %x%x%x%x

man: 4000bc7438049af00: No such file or directory





Regards,



Joao Gouveia

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