CVE-2007-6109 (GCVE-0-2007-6109)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-12-07 11:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:54
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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