CVE-2009-5080: GNU Groff

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

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.

Affected products

• GNU Groff: up to and including 1.21; 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.