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Published: 24/06/2011 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.3 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 294

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) prior to 1.21 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pdf#####.tmp temporary file.

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gnu groff 1.16
gnu groff 1.19.2
gnu groff 1.18.1
gnu groff 1.11a
gnu groff
gnu groff 1.19.1
gnu groff 1.20
gnu groff 1.19
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

CWE-59 http://secunia.com/advisories/44999 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36381 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.20.1-1.21.diff.gz http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/14/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/14/4 http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/groff/groff-1.20.1-owl-tmp.diff http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538330 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/09/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/10/2 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:085 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/groff/groff-1.20.1-owl-tmp.diff.diff?r1=1.1%3Br2=1.2%3Bf=h https://nvd.nist.gov

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