On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, John Robert LoVerso wrote: > Thus, this affects only systems with groff installed (all Linux and FreeBSD > systems, at least). One Linux distribution that doesn't appear to be vulnerable is Debian (tested on 2.1/slink) - the maintainer of the groff package has made the -S ("Safer mode") the default, which turns off potentially dangerous commands like .opena, .pso, etc. Hopefully this change can make it into the official GNU groff distribution - as useful as these features may be, I doubt the majority of people use groff for much more than formatting manpages. Safe defaults are always good. I've also checked OpenBSD 2.5 and FreeBSD 3.2 - the groff on both systems defaults to the unsafe behaviour. Regards, Nic. P.S. My apologies for the From: address mangling - I received far too many vacation messages and spams last time I posted here. -- Nic Bellamy <skyat_private> J. Random Coder.
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