Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | groff utility vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-13-1 | First vendor Publication | 2004-11-01 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2004-11-01 |
| 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 1.18.1.1-1ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in the groff package. The utility "groffer" created a temporary directory 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-13-1 |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2016-04-26 13:53:56 |
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| 2014-02-17 11:59:25 |
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| 2013-05-11 12:25:01 |
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