CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-5078
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-06-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-254
Description
contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document.
Affected configurations
• gnu groff (<= 1.20.1)
• gnu groff 1.10
• gnu groff 1.11
• gnu groff 1.11a
• gnu groff 1.14
• gnu groff 1.15
• gnu groff 1.16
• gnu groff 1.16.1
• gnu groff 1.17.1
• gnu groff 1.17.2
• gnu groff 1.18.1
• gnu groff 1.19
• gnu groff 1.19.1
• gnu groff 1.19.2
• gnu groff 1.20
• apple mac os x (<= 10.10.4)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.20.1-1.21.diff.gz Patch
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538338 bugs.debian.org
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/09/1 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/10/2 openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36381 www.securityfocus.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 Vendor Advisory
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.20.1-1.21.diff.gz Patch
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538338 bugs.debian.org
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/09/1 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/10/2 openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36381 www.securityfocus.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 Vendor Advisory