Security Advisory

CVE-2009-5079

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-06-30 15:26:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 07:24:54
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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 /tmp/##### temporary file.