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groff — security advisory
contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document.
- Products
- groff
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.20.1-5
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-5078
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5078
groff
Fixed versions: 1.20.1-5
groff
Fixed versions: 1.20.1-5
groff
Fixed versions: 1.20.1-5
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2011-06-30T15:55:01.583+00:00"
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