CVE-2001-1331 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2001-1331?

CVE-2001-1331 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 May 2002. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

mandb in the man-db package before 2.3.16-3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via the command line options (1) -u or (2) -c, which do not drop privileges and follow symlinks.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-1331?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Progeny Debian.

How do I fix CVE-2001-1331?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-1331 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-2001-1331 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2001-1331 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-m639-4vw9-8xxv.