CVE-2004-0969 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the groffer script within Groff package versions 1.18 and later, affecting Trustix Secure Linux and potentially other operating systems. An attacker could exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and only partial impact to integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:groff:1.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:4.1:*:ia64:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:4.1:*:ppc:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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