CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-5081

3.3 LOW Published 2011-06-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-06-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu groff (<= 1.21) • 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 • gnu groff 1.20.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References