fkie_cve-2007-6109
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-12-07 11:46
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
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
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297
cve@mitre.orghttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/27965
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/27984
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/28838
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/29420
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/30109
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/27984
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/28838
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/30109
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu emacs *



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      "value": "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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  "lastModified": "2025-04-09T00:30:58.490",
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}


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