suse · CVE-2009-5080

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 12:49:46 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:15:37 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2009-5080 severity low: SUSE including 28 source package names (groff-1.22.2-5.287, groff-1.22.2-5.429, …), 72 product×package rows across 30 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (30 product lines)): Fixed 72.

Description:

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 create temporary directories, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in a temporary directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1296.

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