CVE-2009-5081

Upstream information

CVE-2009-5081 at MITRE

Description

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 files via a symlink attack on a temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0969.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Ignore

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	3.3
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 703666 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12	groff >= 1.22.2-5.429	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1	groff >= 1.22.2-5.429	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2	groff >= 1.22.2-5.429	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3	groff >= 1.22.2-5.429	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15	groff >= 1.22.3-3.12 groff-full >= 1.22.3-3.24 gxditview >= 1.22.3-3.24	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12	groff >= 1.22.2-5.429 groff-full >= 1.22.2-5.429 gxditview >= 1.22.2-5.429	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1	groff >= 1.22.2-5.429 groff-full >= 1.22.2-5.429 gxditview >= 1.22.2-5.429	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2	groff >= 1.22.2-5.429 groff-full >= 1.22.2-5.429 gxditview >= 1.22.2-5.429	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3	groff >= 1.22.2-5.429 groff-full >= 1.22.2-5.429 gxditview >= 1.22.2-5.429	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 GA groff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2	groff >= 1.22.2-5.287 groff-full >= 1.22.2-5.287 gxditview >= 1.22.2-5.287	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 GA groff
openSUSE Leap 15.0	groff >= 1.22.3-lp150.3.1 groff-full >= 1.22.3-lp150.3.14 gxditview >= 1.22.3-lp150.3.14	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.0 GA groff
openSUSE Leap 42.1	groff >= 1.22.2-7.4 groff-full >= 1.22.2-7.7 gxditview >= 1.22.2-7.7	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 42.1 GA groff
openSUSE Leap 42.2	groff >= 1.22.2-8.17 groff-full >= 1.22.2-8.35 gxditview >= 1.22.2-8.35	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 42.2 GA groff
openSUSE Leap 42.3	groff >= 1.22.2-10.5 groff-full >= 1.22.2-10.22 gxditview >= 1.22.2-10.22	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 42.3 GA groff
openSUSE Tumbleweed	groff >= 1.22.3-2.5 groff-doc >= 1.22.3-2.5 groff-full >= 1.22.3-2.5 gxditview >= 1.22.3-2.5	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA groff