FKIE_CVE-2008-1687
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-04-09 19:05 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:52
Severity
Summary
The (1) maketemp and (2) mkstemp builtin functions in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 do not quote their output when a file is created, which might allow context-dependent attackers to trigger a macro expansion, leading to unspecified use of an incorrect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.
References
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