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CVE-2008-1687

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2008-04-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) maketemp and (2) mkstemp builtin functions in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 do not quote their output when a file is created, which might allow context-dependent attackers to trigger a macro expansion, leading to unspecified use of an incorrect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.

Affected Platforms

Gnu M4

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References