CVE-2009-5078: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document.

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 2011-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.