DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6109

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6109

    Published: 7 Dec 2007Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2007-6109

    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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6109

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xemacs21

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/xemacs21?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -21.4.21-4

    Affected versions

    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