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CVE-2008-1688

Public Date:: 2008-04-02

Bugzilla:: 441877: CVE-2008-1688 m4: code execution via -F argument

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1688 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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

Last Modified 2018-04-28T09:28:17+00:00

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