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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:19:57 -0400
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: Security fixes in m4-1.4.11
>
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Patrick J. Volkerding wrote:
>
> > Minor security fix: Quote output of mkstemp.
>
> Use CVE-2008-1687
>
> > Security fix: avoid arbitrary code execution with 'm4 -F'.
>
> Use CVE-2008-1688
>
> Note - these CVE's will not be live until Monday.
>
So I took a look at these today, I don't think either is really a security
issue.
Both issues are certainly bugs, but given each situation, it would be just
as easy to get a victim to run something blatantly malicious that doesn't
need to leverage obscure flaws in the language.
Has anyone else had a look?
Thanks.
--
JB
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