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HistoryNov 02, 2004 - 12:00 a.m.

groff utility vulnerability

2004-11-0200:00:00
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2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

6.1 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in the groff
package. The utility “groffer” created a temporary directory in an
insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create
or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the
program.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu4.10noarchgroff< *UNKNOWN

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

6.1 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%