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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1688

Original release date:04/09/2008

Last revised:04/01/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.5 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (04/15/2008)

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.

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External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29729

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29729

External Source: XF

Name: gnu-m4-producefrozenstate-format-string(41704)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41704

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080406 Re: Security fixes in m4-1.4.11

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/07/3

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080406 Security fixes in m4-1.4.11