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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History
21 Nov 2024, 00:39
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References | () http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297 - | |
References | () http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 - | |
References | () http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html - | |
References | () http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/27984 - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/30109 - | |
References | () http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml - | |
References | () http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034 - | |
References | () http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html - | |
References | () http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references - | |
References | () https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904 - | |
References | () https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/ - |
Information
Published : 2007-12-07 11:46
Updated : 2024-11-21 00:39
NVD link : CVE-2007-6109
Mitre link : CVE-2007-6109
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2007-6109
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Products Affected
gnu
- emacs
CWE
CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer