CVE-2000-0803

published 2000-12-19

CVE-2000-0803: 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…

Priority P4 26 critical 10 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C C I C A C

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 executed when another user runs groff.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
gnu	groff	< 1.17	1.17
google	chrome_chrome	—	—
msrc	cbl_mariner_1.0_arm	—	—
msrc	cbl_mariner_1.0_x64	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 10.0 CRITICAL AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

vendor_msrc 10.0 CRITICAL

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