CVE-2000-0170: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the man program in Linux allows local users to gain privileges via the MANPAGER environmental variable.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; …
• Turbolinux Turbolinux: version 3.5b2 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.4 only

Published 2000-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.