CVE-2001-1179: XFREE86 Project x11r6

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xman allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the MANPATH to point to a man page whose filename contains shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• XFREE86 Project x11r6: version 3.3.2 only

Published 2001-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.