CVE-2007-6109

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    CVE-2007-6109

    Published: 7 Dec 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Stack-based buffer overflow in emacs allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a large precision value in an integer format string specifier to the format function, as demonstrated via a certain "emacs -batch -eval" command line.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/27965, http://secunia.com/advisories/27984, http://secunia.com/advisories/28838, http://secunia.com/advisories/29420, http://secunia.com/advisories/30109, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904, https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High