Description
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.
Published: 2007-12-07
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: 3.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-6078 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-607-1 Emacs vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:54:26.839Z

Reserved: 2007-11-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6109

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-12-07T11:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-6109

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-6109 - Bugzilla

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