CVE-2007-6109 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-6109 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 342158 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:025, published Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2008:003, published Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:39:22 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:08 2025