CVE-2007-6109

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Emacs
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 December 2007

Summary

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
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/27984
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

EPSS Score

1% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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