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Message-Id: <1207552271.18618.13.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:11:11 +0200
From: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: Security fixes in m4-1.4.11
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 20:42 -0400, Steven M. Christey wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Patrick J. Volkerding wrote:
>
> > Minor security fix: Quote output of mkstemp.
>
> Use CVE-2008-1687
This does not sound like a security problem. Mkstemp would never output
any shell metacharacters.
> > Security fix: avoid arbitrary code execution with 'm4 -F'.
>
> Use CVE-2008-1688
>
> Note - these CVE's will not be live until Monday.
>
> - Steve
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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)
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