Bug 720053 – CVE-2009-5078 groff: pdfroff.sh launches Ghostscript without -dSAFER

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Bug 720053 - (CVE-2009-5078) CVE-2009-5078 groff: pdfroff.sh launches Ghostscript without -dSAFER

Summary:	CVE-2009-5078 groff: pdfroff.sh launches Ghostscript without -dSAFER

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	CVE-2009-5078

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	720061
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Reported:	2011-07-08 17:00 EDT by Vincent Danen
Modified:	2012-05-29 06:25 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-05-29 06:25:55 EDT
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-07-08 17:00:38 EDT

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-5078 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2009-5078
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5078
Assigned: 20110630
Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/09/1
Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/10/2
Reference: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.20.1-1.21.diff.gz
Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538338
Reference: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36381

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
arbitrary files via a crafted document.


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 2011-07-08 17:38:49 EDT

Created groff tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-14 [bug 720061]

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