CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1688
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to improper handling of filenames specified with the -F option. NOTE: it is not clear when this issue crosses privilege boundaries.
Affected configurations
• gnu m4 1.4.1
• gnu m4 1.4.2
• gnu m4 1.4.3
• gnu m4 1.4.4
• gnu m4 1.4.5
• gnu m4 1.4.6
• gnu m4 1.4.7
• gnu m4 1.4.8
• gnu m4 1.4.9
• gnu m4 1.4.10
References
- http://osvdb.org/44272 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29671 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29729 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.510612 slackware.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28688 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1151/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41704 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/44272 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29671 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29729 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.510612 slackware.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28688 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1151/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41704 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com