Andries Brouwer maintains a small portfolio of foundational Unix utilities, most notably util-linux and man, that are embedded across a broad range of systems despite their modest disclosure volume. These widely distributed tools have acquired public exploit tooling for their disclosed vulnerabilities, reflecting their privileged access and deep system integration. Defenders should track this vendor's releases for the core utilities tier and treat patches as broadly applicable across deployed systems; live severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Andries Brouwer over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (9 CVEs).
9 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2003-0620MEDIUM Multiple buffer overflows in man-db 2.4.1 and earlier, when installed setuid, allow local users to gain privileges via (1) MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP arguments t | Aug 27, 2003 | 4.6 | 26 | NO | YES |
CVE-2001-1147HIGH The PAM implementation in /bin/login of the util-linux package before 2.11 causes a password entry to be rewritten across multiple PAM calls, which could provide the credentials of | Oct 8, 2001 | 7.2 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2003-0124MEDIUM man before 1.5l allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed man file with improper quotes, which causes the my_xsprintf function to return a string with the value "u | Mar 18, 2003 | 4.6 | 22 | NO | YES |
CVE-2003-0645MEDIUM man-db 2.3.12 and 2.3.18 to 2.4.1 uses certain user-controlled DEFINE directives from the ~/.manpath file, even when running setuid, which could allow local users to gain privilege | Aug 27, 2003 | 4.6 | 21 | NO | YES |
CVE-2003-0094MEDIUM A patch for mcookie in the util-linux package for Mandrake Linux 8.2 and 9.0 uses /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, which causes mcookie to use an entropy source that is more pr | Mar 3, 2003 | 5.0 | 19 | NO | NO |
CVE-2005-2876HIGH umount in util-linux 2.8 to 2.12q, 2.13-pre1, and 2.13-pre2, and other packages such as loop-aes-utils, allows local users with unmount permissions to gain privileges via the -r (r | Sep 13, 2005 | 7.2 | 18 | NO | NO |
CVE-2001-1175HIGH vipw in the util-linux package before 2.10 causes /etc/shadow to be world-readable in some cases, which would make it easier for local users to perform brute force password guessin | Apr 1, 2002 | 7.2 | 18 | NO | NO |
CVE-2004-0080MEDIUM The login program in util-linux 2.11 and earlier uses a pointer after it has been freed and reallocated, which could cause login to leak sensitive data. | Mar 3, 2004 | 5.0 | 16 | NO | NO |
CVE-2006-7108MEDIUM login in util-linux-2.12a skips pam_acct_mgmt and chauth_tok when authentication is skipped, such as when a Kerberos krlogin session has been established, which might allow users t | Mar 4, 2007 | 4.1 | 13 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (9 CVEs).
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