Groff vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product16 versions
The short answer

Groff is made by Gnu. We track 11 published vulnerabilities in it, across 16 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Groff, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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None of Groff's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Groff flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 11%

    Format string vulnerability in pic utility in groff 1.16.1 and other versions, and jgroff before 1.15, allows remote attackers to bypass the -S option and execute arbitrary commands via format string specifiers in...

    CVSS7.5Published26 Jul 2001
  2. 2.3%

    GNU Groff uses the current working directory to find a device description file, which allows a local user to gain additional privileges by including a malicious postpro directive in the description file, which is...

    CVSS10.0Published19 Dec 2000
  3. 2.3%

    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...

    CVSS6.5Published30 Jun 2011
  4. 1.8%

    Buffer overflow in the preprocessor in groff 1.16 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges via lpd in the LPRng printing system.

    CVSS7.5Published27 Feb 2002
  5. 0.4%

    The groffer script in the Groff package 1.18 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on...

    CVSS2.1Published9 Feb 2005
  6. 0.4%

    contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) before 1.21 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pdf#####.tmp temporary file.

    CVSS3.3Published24 Jun 2011
  7. 0.4%

    The (1) contrib/eqn2graph/eqn2graph.sh, (2) contrib/grap2graph/grap2graph.sh, and (3) contrib/pic2graph/pic2graph.sh scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier do not properly handle certain failed attempts to...

    CVSS3.3Published30 Jun 2011
  8. 0.3%

    The (1) eqn2graph and (2) pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

    CVSS2.1Published31 Dec 2004
  9. 0.3%

    The (1) configure and (2) config.guess scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.20.1 on Openwall GNU/*/Linux (aka Owl) improperly create temporary files upon a failure of the mktemp function, which makes it easier for...

    CVSS3.3Published30 Jun 2011
  10. 0.3%

    The (1) gendef.sh, (2) doc/fixinfo.sh, and (3) contrib/gdiffmk/tests/runtests.in scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a gro#####.tmp...

    CVSS3.3Published30 Jun 2011
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We track 11 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Groff, across 16 versions.

None of Groff's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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