CVE-1999-1565 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1565?

CVE-1999-1565 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Mar 2002. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Man2html 2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1565?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Earl Hood Man2html.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1565?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1565 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-1999-1565 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1565 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xq33-vcxx-f474.