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GHSA-6WW7-MX3F-8CQ3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-02 04:00 – Updated: 2025-04-11 03:48

Details

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 users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

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  "published": "2022-05-02T04:00:53Z",
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CVE-2009-5082 (GCVE-0-2009-5082)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-06-30 15:26 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:22

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

4 references

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http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/14/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/pac…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/pac…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

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