PT-2007-7009 · Gnu · Emacs

Published 2007-12-07 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2007-6109

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions emacs (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a stack-based buffer overflow in emacs, which can be triggered by user-assisted attackers. This occurs when a large precision value is used in an integer format string specifier to the format function. The impact includes a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, and potentially other unspecified effects. An example of exploitation is via a specific "emacs -batch -eval" command line.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

AZL-34672

CVE-2007-6109

DTSA-98-1

DTSA-99-1

Affected Products

Emacs

References · 20

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-34672 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6109 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6109 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6109 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-6109 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297 · Note