debian · CVE-2009-5082

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:39:44 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2009-5082 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (groff), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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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