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CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0969
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CVE-2004-0969

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17583

TRUSTIX
  http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA18764

MANDRIVA
  http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:038

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-15.xml

CONFIRM
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136313

BID
  11287


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