CVE-2009-5044: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) before 1.21 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pdf#####.tmp temporary file.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.4
• GNU Groff: up to and including 1.20.1; version 1.10 only; version 1.11 only; version 1.11a only; version 1.14 only; version 1.15 only; …

Published 2011-06-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.