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CVE-2002-1245

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Maped in LuxMan 0.41 uses the user-provided search path to find and execute the gzip program, which allows local users to modify /dev/mem and gain privileges via a modified PATH environment variable that points to a Trojan horse gzip program.

Affected products

• Frank Mcingvale Luxman: 0.41

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0062.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103660334009855&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-189
• http://www.idefense.com/advisory/11.06.02.txt
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10549.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6113
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0062.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103660334009855&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-189
• http://www.idefense.com/advisory/11.06.02.txt
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10549.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6113

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