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GNU Groff: vulnerabilities and CVEs
GNU Groff has 11 published vulnerabilities, 0 of them in the last 12 months. 0 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.
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Latest vulnerabilities
| CVE | Severity | EPSS | Active exploitation | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2009-5082 | Low (3.3) | 0.32% | — | Jun 30, 2011 | The (1) configure and (2) config.guess scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.20.1 on Openwall GNU/*/Linux (aka Owl) improperly create temporary files upon a failure of the mktemp function, which makes it easier for local… |
| CVE-2009-5081 | Low (3.3) | 0.29% | — | Jun 30, 2011 | 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… |
| CVE-2009-5080 | Low (3.3) | 0.36% | — | Jun 30, 2011 | The (1) contrib/eqn2graph/eqn2graph.sh, (2) contrib/grap2graph/grap2graph.sh, and (3) contrib/pic2graph/pic2graph.sh scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier do not properly handle certain failed attempts to… |
| CVE-2009-5079 | Low (3.3) | 0.30% | — | Jun 30, 2011 | The (1) gendef.sh, (2) doc/fixinfo.sh, and (3) contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.in scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a gro#####.tmp or… |
| CVE-2009-5078 | Medium (6.5) | 2.3% | — | Jun 30, 2011 | 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… |
| CVE-2009-5044 | Low (3.3) | 0.37% | — | Jun 24, 2011 | contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) before 1.21 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pdf#####.tmp temporary file. |
| CVE-2004-0969 | Low (2.1) | 0.37% | — | Feb 9, 2005 | 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… |
| CVE-2004-1296 | Low (2.1) | 0.35% | — | Dec 31, 2004 | The (1) eqn2graph and (2) pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. |
| CVE-2002-0003 | High (7.5) | 1.8% | — | Feb 27, 2002 | Buffer overflow in the preprocessor in groff 1.16 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges via lpd in the LPRng printing system. |
| CVE-2001-1022 | High (7.5) | 11% | — | Jul 26, 2001 | Format string vulnerability in pic utility in groff 1.16.1 and other versions, and jgroff before 1.15, allows remote attackers to bypass the -S option and execute arbitrary commands via format string specifiers in the… |
| CVE-2000-0803 | High (10) | 2.3% | — | Dec 19, 2000 | GNU Groff uses the current working directory to find a device description file, which allows a local user to gain additional privileges by including a malicious postpro directive in the description file, which is… |