Link Following Affecting groff-perl package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-GROFFPERL-1326265
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Aug 2009

Introduced: 14 Aug 2009

CVE-2009-5080  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 groff-perl.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream groff-perl package and not the groff-perl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1