GLSA 201310-14: Groff: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Severity:	low
Title:	Groff: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:	10/25/2013
Bugs:	#386335
ID:	201310-14

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Groff, allowing context-dependent attackers to conduct symlink attacks.

Background

GNU Troff (Groff) is a text formatter used for man pages.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
sys-apps/groff	< 1.22.2	>= 1.22.2	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Groff. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A context-dependent attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Groff users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/groff-1.22.2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-14.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.