Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | groff utility vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-43-1 | First vendor Publication | 2004-12-20 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2004-12-20 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 2.1 | Attack Range | Local |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 3.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) The following packages are affected: groff The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.18.1.1-1ubuntu0.2. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that the auxiliary scripts "eqn2graph" and "pic2graph" created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-43-1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: ja-groff File : nvt/freebsd_ja-groff.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 13448 | groff pic2graph Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite |
| 13447 | groff eqn2graph Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-04-20 | Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-086.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-01-15 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-43-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2005-07-13 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_01bb84e2bd8811d9a28102e018374e71.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 12:04:12 |
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