CVE-2007-6109

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

GNU Emacs: all versions

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
http://secunia.com/advisories/27984
http://secunia.com/advisories/28838
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/30109
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html

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