CVE-2004-1296

CVE-2004-1296 affects groff (GNU troff) 1.18.1 where the scripts eqn2graph and pic2graph may overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. The vulnerability arises from insecure handling of temporary files, enabling local users to modify files with partial integrity impact. N...

DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1296

The 1 eqn2graph and 2 pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-1296

The 1 eqn2graph and 2 pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-1296

The 1 eqn2graph and 2 pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-1296

The 1 eqn2graph and 2 pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-1296

The 1 eqn2graph and 2 pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-1296: Undefined Security Weakness

The 1 eqn2graph and 2 pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

USN-43-1: groff utility vulnerabilities

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that the auxiliary scripts "eqn2graph" and "pic2graph" created temporary files 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...

groff -- pic2graph and eqn2graph are vulnerable to symlink attack through temporary files

The eqn2graph and pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

OpenSSL, Groff: Insecure tempfile handling

Background OpenSSL is a toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols as well as a general-purpose cryptography library. It includes the derchop script, which is used to convert DER-encoded certificates to PEM format. Groff GNU Troff is a typesetting package...

GLSA-200411-15 : OpenSSL, Groff: Insecure tempfile handling

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200411-15 OpenSSL, Groff: Insecure tempfile handling groffer and the derchop script create temporary files in world-writeable directories with predictable names. Impact : A local attacker could create symbolic links in the tempora...

USN-13-1: groff utility vulnerability

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...

CVE-2004-0969

Technical details for CVE-2004-0969 are not publicly provided in the supplied connected documents. The materials reference the vulnerability generally (symlink attack in groff), but do not contain product/version/impact/fix specifics. Monitor for updates.

CVE-2004-0969

The groffer script in the Groff package 1.18 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

CVE-2004-0969: Undefined Security Weakness

The groffer script in the Groff package 1.18 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

groff -- groffer uses temporary files unsafely

The groffer script in the groff package 1.18 and later versions allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

Debian DSA-072-1 : groff - printf format attack

Zenith Parse found a security problem in groff the GNU version oftroff. The pic command was vulnerable to a printf format attack which made it possible to circumvent the -S' option and execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : groff (MDKSA-2002:012)

zen-parse discovered an exploitable buffer overflow in groff's preprocessor. If groff is invoked using the LPRng printing system, an attacker can gain rights as the 'lp' user. Likewise, this may be remotely exploitable if lpd is running and remotely accessible and the attacker knows the name of t...

Linux groff utility pic contains format string vulnerability

Overview The pic component of the image processing package groff contains a format string vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description groff is an image processing package on Linux systems. A component of groff called pic contains a format-string...

CVE-2001-1022

CVE-2001-1022 relates to a format-string vulnerability in the groff family: the pic component of groff (and jgroff before 1.15) could bypass the -S option and execute arbitrary commands via format-string specifiers in the plot command. Affected: groff 1.16.1 and other versions; jgroff before 1.15...