CVE-2001-1178 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in xman, a component of XFree86 X11R6. This flaw allows local users to escalate their privileges by providing an excessively long MANPATH environment variable. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), this vulnerability presents a significant risk, as it permits full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While not currently on CISA's KEV catalog or showing active exploitation, public exploit code exists (EDB-21010), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.