GNU m4 vulnerabilities

2 CVEs affecting GNU m4, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2008-1688, published 2008-04-09.

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• CVE-2008-1688, published 2008-04-09. 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…
• CVE-2008-1687, published 2008-04-09. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The (1) maketemp and (2) mkstemp builtin functions in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 do not quote their output when a file is created, which might allow context-dependent attackers to trigger a macro…