cve/2009/CVE-2009-5080.md

### [CVE-2009-5080](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5080)
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### Description

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 create temporary directories, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in a temporary directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-1296.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/iakovmarkov/prometheus-vuls-exporter