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The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2004-1296 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Last Modified 2018-05-01T15:22:57+00:00