In message <199907251418.KAA05569at_private>, John Robert LoVe rso writes: > 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 > Umm, not quite. My 1976 (no, that's not a typo) nroff/troff manual has .pi -- pipe output to program; .sy is also ancient, and probably there since at least since 1977. My 1981 addendum also lists .! as another way to do shell escapes.
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