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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201310-14">
+ <title>Groff: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Groff, allowing
+ context-dependent attackers to conduct symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">groff</product>
+ <announced>2013-10-25</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2013-10-25</revised>
+ <bug>386335</bug>
+ <access>local, remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/groff" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.22.2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.22.2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>GNU Troff (Groff) is a text formatter used for man pages.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Groff. Please review
+ the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="low">
+ <p>A context-dependent attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite
+ arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Groff users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/groff-1.22.2"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-5044">CVE-2009-5044</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-5078">CVE-2009-5078</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-5079">CVE-2009-5079</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-5080">CVE-2009-5080</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-5081">CVE-2009-5081</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-5082">CVE-2009-5082</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-10-10T02:36:54Z">
+ creffett
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-10-25T22:46:33Z">
+ BlueKnight
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>