The (1) config.guess, (2) contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.pl...
Low severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 2, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jun 30, 2011
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 2, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
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.
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