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groff: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):groff CVE #(s):CVE-2009-5080 CVE-2009-5081
Created:June 8, 2012 Updated:June 13, 2012
Description:

From the Fedora advisory:

older security fixes:

- CVE-2009-5080: improper handling of failed attempts to create temporary directories in eqn2graph/pic2graph/grap2graph

- CVE-2009-5081: roff2.pl and groffer.pl use easy-to-guess temporary file names

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8590 2012-06-07
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8596 2012-06-07
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8577 2012-06-07
Mageia MGASA-2012-0164 2012-07-14
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:085 2013-04-09
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:086 2013-04-09
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