Gentoo FoundationGLSA-201310-14Groff: Multiple Vulnerabilities
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
0.009 Low
EPSS
Percentile
82.5%
Background
GNU Troff (Groff) is a text formatter used for man pages.
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Groff. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Impact
A context-dependent attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Groff users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/groff-1.22.2"
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gentoo | any | all | sys-apps/groff | < 1.22.2 | UNKNOWN |
Related
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
0.009 Low
EPSS
Percentile
82.5%