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CVE-2009-5081
Published: Jun 30, 2011
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
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References
[oss-security] 20090814 Re: CVE id request: groff (pdfroff)
mailing-list
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[oss-security] 20090814 Re: CVE id request: groff (pdfroff)
mailing-list
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MDVSA-2013:086
vendor-advisory
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