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m4 format string vulnerability [was: Re: SuSe / Debian man

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Gerber)
Sat Feb 3 17:53:44 2001

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Date:         Sat, 3 Feb 2001 15:54:30 +0100
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From: Mike Gerber <bluehell@GMX.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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              Fre, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:36:29 +0100

On Fre, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:36:29 +0100, Tomasz Kužniar wrote:
> The same problem in most (all?) distributions is with m4 - GNU macro
> processor code, when trying use -G option:
>
> mezon@beata:~$ m4 -G %x%x%x%x
> m4: 40012a48380491e00: No such file or directory

confirmed for red hat linux 7.0:

[kerouac:mg:~]m4 -G %x
m4: 80499d9: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
[kerouac:mg:~]cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
[kerouac:mg:~]rpm -q m4
m4-1.4.1-3

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mike gerber

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