CVE-2001-0641: Immunix

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in man program in various distributions of Linux allows local user to execute arbitrary code as group man via a long -S option.

Affected products

• Immunix Immunix: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0_beta only
• Red Hat Linux: version 5.2 only; version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only; version 7.0 only; …

Published 2001-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.