CVE-1999-1565: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only
• Earl Hood MAN2HTML: up to and including 2.1

Published 1999-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.