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CVE-2009-5078 (GCVE-0-2009-5078)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-06-30 15:26 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:24
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2009-08-09 00:00
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      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:57:03+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2009-5078",
      "id": "CVE-2009-5078",
      "initial_release_date": "2009-07-24T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
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      "current_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:01:11Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2009-5078",
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      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:01:11Z",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2009-5078",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2009-5078.json",
      "version": "2"
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}



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