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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-6109 Detail

Current 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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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (12/11/2007)

Red Hat does not consider this issue to be a security vulnerability since no trust boundary is crossed. The user must voluntarily interact with the attack mechanism to exploit this flaw, with the result being the ability to run code as themselves.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297 CVE, MITRE
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/27984 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30109 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034 CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904 CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/ CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-6109
NVD Published Date:
12/07/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE