CVE-2008-1688

Description

From CVE.org

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.

Statement

Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. After careful analysis of this issue the Red Hat Product Security has determined that this bug has no security impact outside of expected m4 behavior.

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