GNU Groff vulnerabilities

10 CVEs affecting GNU Groff, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2009-5082, published 2011-06-30.

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CVE-2001-1022, published 2001-07-26. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 11.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Format string vulnerability in pic utility in groff 1.16.1 and other versions, and jgroff before 1.15, allows remote attackers to bypass the -S option and execute arbitrary commands via format string…
CVE-2000-0803, published 2000-12-19. High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. GNU Groff uses the current working directory to find a device description file, which allows a local user to gain additional privileges by including a malicious postpro directive in the description…
CVE-2009-5078, published 2011-06-30. 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…
CVE-2002-0003, published 2002-02-27. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Buffer overflow in the preprocessor in groff 1.16 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges via lpd in the LPRng printing system.
CVE-2009-5044, published 2011-06-24. 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.
CVE-2004-0969, published 2005-02-09. 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…
CVE-2009-5080, published 2011-06-30. 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…
CVE-2009-5082, published 2011-06-30. Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The (1) configure and (2) config.guess scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.20.1 on Openwall GNU/*/Linux (aka Owl) improperly create temporary files upon a failure of the mktemp function, which makes…
CVE-2009-5079, published 2011-06-30. Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The (1) gendef.sh, (2) doc/fixinfo.sh, and (3) contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.in scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack…
CVE-2009-5081, published 2011-06-30. Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The (1) config.guess, (2) contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.pl, and (3) contrib/groffer/perl/roff2.pl scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier use an insufficient number of X characters in the…