Local File Overwrite Vulnerability in GNU Troff by GNU
CVE-2009-5081

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Gnu
Status: Groff
Vendor: CVE Published:; 30 June 2011

What is CVE-2009-5081?

The GNU troff product, including versions up to 1.21, contains a vulnerability in the scripts config.guess, contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.pl, and contrib/groffer/perl/roff2.pl, using an inadequate number of X characters in the template argument for the tempfile function. This flaw can allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack via a temporary file, thus posing a significant security risk.

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