[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: groff-1.21-9.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8577
2012-05-29 15:46:37
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Name        : groff
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.21
Release     : 9.fc17
URL         : http://groff.ffii.org
Summary     : A document formatting system
Description :
Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and
formatting commands as input and produces formatted output. The
created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer.
Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size,
bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and
more.

Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use
groff with the X Window System, you will also need to install the
groff-x11 package.

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Update Information:

older security fixes
- CVE-2009-5044: insecure temporary file handling in pdfroff
- CVE-2009-5080: improper handling of failed attempts to create temporary directories in eqn2graph/pic2graph/grap2graph
- CVE-2009-5081: roff2.pl and groffer.pl use easy-to-guess temporary file names
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 29 2012 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at redhat.com> 1.21-9
- older security fixes (#709415, #720060):
  + CVE-2009-5044: insecure temporary file handling in pdfroff
  + CVE-2009-5080: improper handling of failed attempts to create temporary directories in eqn2graph/pic2graph/grap2graph
  + CVE-2009-5081: roff2.pl and groffer.pl use easy-to-guess temporary file names
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #709413 - CVE-2009-5044 groff: insecure temporary file handling in pdfroff
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709413
  [ 2 ] Bug #720058 - CVE-2009-5080 groff: improper handling of failed attempts to create temporary directories in eqn2graph/pic2graph/grap2graph
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720058
  [ 3 ] Bug #720057 - CVE-2009-5081 groff: roff2.pl and groffer.pl use easy-to-guess temporary file names
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720057
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update groff' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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