if it is not know problem, thiery, please can you create new man
package? new version fixes security bug:


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> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:24:01 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jack Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Vulnerability in man < 1.5l
> Organization: JHU ACM/CS/SRL
> 
> man 1.5l was released today, fixing a bug which results in arbitrary code
> execution upon reading a specially formatted man file. The basic problem
> is, upon finding a string with a quoting problem, the function my_xsprintf
> in util.c will return "unsafe" (rather than returning a string which could
> be interpreted by the shell). This return value is passed directly to
> system(3) - meaning if there is any program named `unsafe`, it will execute
> with the privs of the user.
> 
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