ubuntu-cve-2009-5080
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2011-06-30 15:55
Modified
2025-10-24 04:44
Summary
Details

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 via a symlink attack on a file in a temporary directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1296.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "groff",
            "binary_version": "1.22.2-5"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "groff-base",
            "binary_version": "1.22.2-5"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "groff",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/groff@1.22.2-5?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.22.2-3",
        "1.22.2-4",
        "1.22.2-5"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "groff",
            "binary_version": "1.22.3-7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "groff-base",
            "binary_version": "1.22.3-7"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "groff",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/groff@1.22.3-7?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.22.3-1",
        "1.22.3-2",
        "1.22.3-4",
        "1.22.3-5",
        "1.22.3-6",
        "1.22.3-7"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "groff",
            "binary_version": "1.22.3-10"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "groff-base",
            "binary_version": "1.22.3-10"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "groff",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/groff@1.22.3-10?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.22.3-9",
        "1.22.3-10"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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 via a symlink attack on a file in a temporary directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1296.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2009-5080",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:44:51Z",
  "published": "2011-06-30T15:55:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-5080"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-5080"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2009-5080"
  ]
}



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