Bug 441877 (CVE-2008-1688)

Summary:	CVE-2008-1688 m4: code execution via -F argument
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	vcrhonek
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1688
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-04-10 17:01:00 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-1688 to the following vulnerability:

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.

References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/1
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-announce/2008-04/msg00000.html
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.510612
http://secunia.com/advisories/29671

Upstream patch:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=commit;h=035998112737e52cb229e342913ef404e5a51040

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-04-15 07:29:29 UTC

Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue.