CVE-2007-6109
EPSS 3.0%emacs22 - buffer overflow
Published: 12/7/2007Modified: 4/28/2026
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 packages (3)
- Debian/emacs21from 0, < 21.4a+1-5.1+lenny1
- Debian/emacs22from 0, < 22.1+1-2.1+lenny1
- Debian/xemacs21from 0, < 21.4.21-4