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CVE-2004-0969

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-02-09 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• gentoo Linux: all versions
• GNU Groff: 1.19
• Ubuntu Linux: 4.1

References

• 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
• 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

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