CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-5078

Published: Jun 30, 2011 | Modified: Mar 30, 2016
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Groff Gnu * 1.20.1 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.10 (including) 1.10 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.11 (including) 1.11 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.11a (including) 1.11a (including)
Groff Gnu 1.14 (including) 1.14 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.15 (including) 1.15 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.16 (including) 1.16 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.16.1 (including) 1.16.1 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.17.1 (including) 1.17.1 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.17.2 (including) 1.17.2 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.18.1 (including) 1.18.1 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.19 (including) 1.19 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.19.1 (including) 1.19.1 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.19.2 (including) 1.19.2 (including)
Groff Gnu 1.20 (including) 1.20 (including)

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