Vulnerability CVE-2004-0969
Published: 2005-02-09   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The groffer script in the Groff package 1.18 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Ubuntu -> Ubuntu linux 
GNU -> Groff 
Gentoo -> Linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11287
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-15.xml
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17583
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136313
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:038
http://secunia.com/advisories/18764
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