3.3
CWE
59
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2009-5081

First published: Thu Jun 30 2011(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
GNU Groff<=1.21
GNU Groff=1.16.1
GNU Groff=1.16
GNU Groff=1.19.2
GNU Groff=1.18.1
GNU Groff=1.11a
GNU Groff=1.19.1
GNU Groff=1.20
GNU Groff=1.19
GNU Groff=1.20.1
GNU Groff=1.14
GNU Groff=1.17.2
GNU Groff=1.10
GNU Groff=1.17.1
GNU Groff=1.11
GNU Groff=1.15

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