National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1687
Original release date:04/09/2008
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The (1) maketemp and (2) mkstemp builtin functions in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 do not quote their output when a file is created, which might allow context-dependent attackers to trigger a macro expansion, leading to unspecified use of an incorrect filename.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
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 unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29729
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: gnu-m4-macros-weak-security(41706)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1151
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080407 Re: Security fixes in m4-1.4.11
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080406 Re: Security fixes in m4-1.4.11
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080407 Re: Security fixes in m4-1.4.11
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080406 Security fixes in m4-1.4.11
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2008-098-01
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29671
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 28688