CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2004-0969

Published: Feb 09, 2005 | Modified: Jul 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

The groffer script in the Groff package 1.18 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Groff Gnu 1.19 (including) 1.19 (including)
Groff Ubuntu dapper *
Groff Ubuntu devel *
Groff Ubuntu edgy *
Groff Ubuntu feisty *

References