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Re: Troff dangerous.

From: john () LOVERSO SOUTHBOROUGH MA US (John Robert LoVerso)
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:18:20 -0400


This isn't a problem with "troff" or any of it's varients.  Instead,
this is an exploit purely with "groff", the GNU reimplementation.  Troff
doesn't have the file stream or ".pso" requests; those are purely part
of groff.

Thus, this affects only systems with groff installed (all Linux and FreeBSD
systems, at least).

John

Current thread:

Re: Troff dangerous. John Robert LoVerso (Jul 25)
- Re: Troff dangerous. Nic Bellamy (Jul 25)
  - Re: Troff dangerous. Aaron Campbell (Jul 26)
- Re: Troff dangerous. Olaf Kirch (Jul 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Troff dangerous. Joel Eriksson (Jul 25)
  - Re: Troff dangerous. Pete (Jul 25)
    - Re: Troff dangerous. Robert Watson (Jul 27)
  - Re: Troff dangerous. Yozo Toda (Jul 25)
  - Re: Troff dangerous. Eric Moore (Jul 25)
    - Re: Troff dangerous. Ville Nummela (Jul 27)
- Re: Troff dangerous. Jason Thorpe (Jul 25)

(Thread continues...)