CVE-2008-1688: GNU m4

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to improper handling of filenames specified with the -F option. NOTE: it is not clear when this issue crosses privilege boundaries.

Affected products

• GNU m4: version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.5 only; version 1.4.6 only; …

Published 2008-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.