Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-5080 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2009-5080 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5080 Assigned: 20110630 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/14/4 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/14/5 Reference: http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/groff/groff-1.20.1-owl-tmp.diff Reference: http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/groff/groff-1.20.1-owl-tmp.diff.diff?r1=1.1;r2=1.2;f=h The (1) contrib/eqn2graph/eqn2graph.sh, (2) contrib/grap2graph/grap2graph.sh, and (3) contrib/pic2graph/pic2graph.sh scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier do not properly handle certain failed attempts to create temporary directories, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in a temporary directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1296.
Created groff tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 720060]
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.
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.
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.
Statement: Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.