CVE-2004-0969 Affecting groff package, versions [,1.19]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GROFF-2333711
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Feb 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2005

CVE-2004-0969  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for groff.

Overview

The groffer script in the Groff package 1.18 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1