CVE-2007-6109
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 3.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.0% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6078)
- Published
- December 7, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6078 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / emacs
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
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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