Vulnerability in Gnu Groff
CVE-2009-5081
The (1) config.guess, (2) contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.pl, and (3) contrib/groffer/perl/roff2.pl scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier use an insufficient number of X characters in the template argument to the tempfile function, which makes it easier for local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0969.
EPSS: 0.003 (21.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gnu Groff — versions 1.10, 1.11, 1.11a
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)