SUSE CVE-2009-5082

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...

GNU troff contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh design error vulnerability

Groff GNU Troff is the latest open source implementation of Troff, a document preparation system that generates print and screen documents from the same input source for a variety of devices. GNU troff groff versions prior to 1.21 in contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh starts the Ghostscript program witho...

CVE-2009-5081

The 1 config.guess, 2 contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.pl, and 3 contrib/groffer/perl/roff2.pl scripts in GNU troff aka groff 1.21 and earlier use an insufficient number of X characters in the template argument to the tempfile function, which makes it easier for local users to overwrite arbitrary fil...