CVE-2004-0969 Information

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.

Reference

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