CVE-2007-6109 (GCVE-0-2007-6109)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-07 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:54
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/30109 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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