CVE-2008-1687

Name	CVE-2008-1687
Description	The (1) maketemp and (2) mkstemp builtin functions in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 do not quote their output when a file is created, which might allow context-dependent attackers to trigger a macro expansion, leading to unspecified use of an incorrect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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
m4 (PTS)	buster	1.4.18-2	vulnerable
	bullseye	1.4.18-5	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	1.4.19-3	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
m4	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

This is more a generic bug and not a security issue: the random output would
need to match the name of an existing macro