CVE-2004-0969: Gentoo Linux

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gentoo Linux: any version
• GNU Groff: version 1.19 only
• Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux: version 4.1 only

Published 2005-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.