[Secure-testing-commits] r8602 - data/CVE

jmm-guest at alioth.debian.org
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:08:33 -0000

Author: jmm-guest
Date: 2008-04-23 19:08:32 +0000 (Wed, 23 Apr 2008)
New Revision: 8602

Modified:
   data/CVE/list
Log:
two m4 issues are non-issues


Modified: data/CVE/list
==================================================================---
data/CVE/list	2008-04-23 18:07:16 UTC (rev 8601)
+++ data/CVE/list	2008-04-23 19:08:32 UTC (rev 8602)
@@ -492,9 +492,13 @@
 CVE-2008-1689 (Stack consumption vulnerability in WebContainer.exe 1.0.0.336
and ...)
 	NOT-FOR-US: SLMail Pro
 CVE-2008-1688 (Unspecified vulnerability in GNU m4 before 1.4.11 might allow
...)
-	- m4 <unfixed> (low)
+	- m4 <unfixed> (unimportant)
+	NOTE: The file name is passed through a cmdline argument and m4
doesn''t run with
+	NOTE: elevated privileges.
 CVE-2008-1687 (The (1) maketemp and (2) mkstemp builtin functions in GNU m4
before ...)
-	- m4 <unfixed> (low)
+	- m4 <unfixed> (unimportant)
+	NOTE: This is more a generic bug and not a security issue: the random output
would
+	NOTE: need to match the name of an existing macro
 CVE-2008-1686 (Array index vulnerability in Speex 1.1.12 and earlier, as used
in ...)
 	- speex 1.2~beta2-1 (medium)
 	- libfishsound 0.7.0-2.2 (medium; bug #475152)