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CVE-2009-5081LOWCVSS 3.3

CVE-2009-5081

Published Jun 30, 2011·Updated Jun 16, 2026

NVD Description

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 template argument to the tempfile function, which makes it easier for local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0969.

CVSS Vector

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

References

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