CVE-2007-6109

GNU Emacs - Stack-based Buffer Overflow via Format String Specifier

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (15)

Core 15
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/27984
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_apple
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/30109
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28838

Scores

EPSS 0.0300
EPSS Percentile 86.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/emacs
Published Dec 07, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026