Bug 26763 - buffer overflow for m4
Summary: buffer overflow for m4
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: m4
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard: Florence RC-1
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-09 00:41 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-02-09 23:07:36 UTC
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Description Chris Ricker 2001-02-09 00:41:50 UTC 
m4-1.4.1-3

The m4 shipping in beta three is vulnerable to the buffer overflows
currently being discussed on bugtraq

[root@station12 /root]# m4 -G %n
m4: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root@station12 /root]# m4 -G %n%n
m4: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root@station12 /root]# m4 -G %x  
m4: 80499d9: No such file or directory
[root@station12 /root]# m4 -G %qx
m4: bffff8ec080499d9: No such file or directory
[root@station12 /root]#
Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-09 23:07:21 UTC 
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Release-Candidate #1
Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2001-02-13 13:32:13 UTC 
I have fied the above one and found another similar case. Both are fixed in the
current rpm.
Thanks for this report.
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