CVE-1999-1565

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-1999-1565 · Published 20/08/1999 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-1999-1565 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting man2html (earl hood).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.31%, higher than 23.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
man2html earl_hood	`≤ 2.1`	No fix yet

Man2html 2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

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