{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:11",
        "name": "groff"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.20.1-5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:12",
        "name": "groff"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.20.1-5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:13",
        "name": "groff"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.20.1-5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "unimportant"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "groff"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.20.1-5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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 local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5082",
  "modified": "2026-04-28T19:51:16.796047372Z",
  "published": "2011-06-30T15:55:01.800Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-5082"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2009-5082"
  ]
}