BSD lpr 0.54 -4 Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1834/info lpr is a set of printing tools for unix systems. The lpr package that ships with RedHat Linux 6.2 and possibly earlier versions contains a vulnerability that will allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

Groff: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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 wit...

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5080

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...

CVE-2009-5078

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff aka groff before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document...

CVE-2009-5080

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...

CVE-2009-5079

The 1 gendef.sh, 2 doc/fixinfo.sh, and 3 contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.in scripts in GNU troff aka groff 1.21 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a gro.tmp or /tmp/ temporary file...

CVE-2009-5078

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff aka groff before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document...

CVE-2009-5080

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...

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...

CVE-2009-5079

The 1 gendef.sh, 2 doc/fixinfo.sh, and 3 contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.in scripts in GNU troff aka groff 1.21 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a gro.tmp or /tmp/ temporary file...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CVE-2009-5079

The 1 gendef.sh, 2 doc/fixinfo.sh, and 3 contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.in scripts in GNU troff aka groff 1.21 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a gro.tmp or /tmp/ temporary file...

CVE-2009-5080

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...

Directory traversal

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...

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...

Code injection

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff aka groff before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document...