Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2001-0193. PoCs published by IhaQueR.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a format string vulnerability in the `man` command (CVE-2001-0193) to achieve local privilege escalation (LPE) by overwriting stack variables, including the return address. It brute-forces memory addresses to execute arbitrary shellcode, ultimately spawning a root shell.
Description
Format string vulnerability in man in some Linux distributions allows local users to gain privileges via a malformed -l parameter.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a format string vulnerability in the `man` command (CVE-2001-0193) to achieve local privilege escalation (LPE) by overwriting stack variables, including the return address. It brute-forces memory addresses to execute arbitrary shellcode, ultimately spawning a root shell.