Groff: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Groff: Multiple Vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Groff, allowing context-dependent attackers to conduct symlink attacks. groff October 25, 2013 October 25, 2013: 1 386335 local, remote 1.22.2 1.22.2

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Groff. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A context-dependent attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Groff users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/groff-1.22.2"

CVE-2009-5044 CVE-2009-5078 CVE-2009-5079 CVE-2009-5080 CVE-2009-5081 CVE-2009-5082 creffett BlueKnight