Bug 709413 (CVE-2009-5044)

Summary:	CVE-2009-5044 groff: insecure temporary file handling in pdfroff
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jrusnack
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:57:51 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	709414, 709415
Bug Blocks:

Description Vincent Danen 2011-05-31 16:32:47 UTC

A Debian bug report [1] indicated that the pdfroff utility uses $$ (the current process's PID) to create predictable temporary files.

pdfroff is not included in older versions of groff as provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or earlier (1.18.1), but is included in 1.20 and higher, so Fedora 14 and higher are affected.

As well, older groff includes the groff-1.18.1.4-sectmp.patch patch which fixes other temporary file issues, however Fedora 14 and higher do not include a similar patch.  Recommend using the Openwall patch [2] in Fedora 14 and higher to secure this flaw and other temporary file issues that had previously been protected with the aforementioned patch.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538330
[2] http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/groff/groff-1.20.1-owl-tmp.diff?rev=1.2;content-type=text%2Fplain


Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of groff as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-05-31 16:34:07 UTC

Created groff tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-14 [bug 709414]
Affects: fedora-15 [bug 709415]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-06-07 23:01:13 UTC

groff-1.21-4.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-06-07 23:03:53 UTC

groff-1.21-4.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-06-07 23:08:28 UTC

groff-1.21-9.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.