CVE-2009-5079

CVE-2009-5079

CVE-2009-5079 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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 on a gro#####.tmp or /tmp/##### temporary file.

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