Re: man bugs might lead to root compromise (RH 6.1 and other boxes)

[hdm () SECUREAUSTIN COM (H D Moore)]

I tried PAGERas well as every other environment variable I could tell it
read, no luck.  The PAGER just gives me "AAAAAAAAA" ... "AA: Command not
found."

-HD

Michal Zalewski wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, H D Moore wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I could not reproduce this on a SuSE 6.2 system running:
> >
> > man, version 2.3.10, db 2.3.1, July 12th, 1995
> > (G.Wilford () ee surrey ac uk)
> >
> > My copy is setgid man and I also subjected it to 4,8, and 20 kb buffers
> > in every envrionment variable it uses without it flinching.
>
> Try setting PAGER instead of MANPAGER - older man version used it.
>
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