Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 7, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-6109
CVE-2007-6109
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.
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Affected products
2Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
15- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cginvd
- docs.info.apple.com/article.htmlnvd
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27965nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/27984nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/28838nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/29420nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/30109nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xmlnvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.htmlnvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/referencesnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/nvd
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